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Families of Curves with Prescribed Singularities

  • The study of families of curves with prescribed singularities has a long tradition. Its foundations were laid by Plücker, Severi, Segre, and Zariski at the beginning of the 20th century. Leading to interesting results with applications in singularity theory and in the topology of complex algebraic curves and surfaces it has attained the continuous attraction of algebraic geometers since then. Throughout this thesis we examine the varieties V(D,S1,...,Sr) of irreducible reduced curves in a fixed linear system |D| on a smooth projective surface S over the complex numbers having precisely r singular points of types S1,...,Sr. We are mainly interested in the following three questions: 1) Is V(D,S1,...,Sr) non-empty? 2) Is V(D,S1,...,Sr) T-smooth, that is smooth of the expected dimension? 3) Is V(D,S1,...Sr) irreducible? We would like to answer the questions in such a way that we present numerical conditions depending on invariants of the divisor D and of the singularity types S1,...,Sr, which ensure a positive answer. The main conditions which we derive will be of the type inv(S1)+...+inv(Sr) < aD^2+bD.K+c, where inv is some invariant of singularity types, a, b and c are some constants, and K is some fixed divisor. The case that S is the projective plane has been very well studied by many authors, and on other surfaces some results for curves with nodes and cusps have been derived in the past. We, however, consider arbitrary singularity types, and the results which we derive apply to large classes of surfaces, including surfaces in projective three-space, K3-surfaces, products of curves and geometrically ruled surfaces.
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Author:Thomas Keilen
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:386-kluedo-13214
Advisor:Gert-Martin Greuel
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:2001
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Granting Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Acceptance Date of the Thesis:2002/10/30
Date of the Publication (Server):2001/12/05
Tag:equisingular families; projective surfaces; singularities
GND Keyword:Projektive Fläche; Kurvenschar; Singularität; Verschwindungsatz
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
MSC-Classification (mathematics):14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Hxx Curves / 14H10 Families, moduli (algebraic)
14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Hxx Curves / 14H15 Families, moduli (analytic) [See also 30F10, 32Gxx]
14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Hxx Curves / 14H20 Singularities, local rings [See also 13Hxx, 14B05]
14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Jxx Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (For analytic theory, see 32Jxx) / 14J26 Rational and ruled surfaces
14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Jxx Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (For analytic theory, see 32Jxx) / 14J27 Elliptic surfaces
14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Jxx Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (For analytic theory, see 32Jxx) / 14J28 K3 surfaces and Enriques surfaces
14-XX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY / 14Jxx Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (For analytic theory, see 32Jxx) / 14J70 Hypersurfaces
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