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Segre embedding and intersections by hyperplanes

Consider the Segre embedding $$ \mathbb{P}^2 \times \mathbb{P}^2 \to \mathbb{P}^8.$$ Denote by $V$ the image of the Segre embedding and by $B$ the locus of triples $(H_1, H_2, H_3)$ with $H_i \in H^0(\...
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What are algebroid curves/branches and their value semigroup?

In “The moduli problem for plane branches”, by O. Zariski, the author defines a plane branch as an irreducible element $f \in \mathbb C[[x,y]]$. In the more recent article "The semigroup of a ...
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Tame ramification of (mild) curve singularities.

Suppose that $C$ and $D$ are curves of finite type over an algebraically closed field $k$ (we make some of these hypotheses for simplicity). We view these as pointed curves with singularities $c \in ...
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J.-P. Serre: Duality of regular differentials on singular curves

I already asked this on math.stackexchange.com, but didn't get any responses. I hope it is appropriate here. Let $X'$ be an irreducible singular algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field $k$, ...
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Scheme-theoretic image and delta-invariants

Let $(X,o)$ be an affine, isolated, normal, Gorenstein singularity. Let $f$ and $g$ be two morphisms from $\mbox{Spec}(\mathbb{C}[[t]])$ to $X$ (also known as formal arcs) such that the closed point ...
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Normalization of affine curves in singular surfaces

Let $X$ be a normal, isolated surface singularity with $x_0 \in X$ the unique singularity. Let $C \subset X$ be a hyperplane section i.e., defined by a single equation. Denote by $n:\widetilde{C} \to ...
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vanishing of higher algebraic de Rham cohomology and sheaves of differentials for singular curves

I'm looking for some results or references about de Rham cohomology of curves in less-than-optimal cases. The two vanishing results I care about are: $H^{k}_{\text{dR}}(X) = 0$ for $k>2$, since $H^...
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Singularities of curves that are moving

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field, let $d\ge 2$ be an integer and let $f,g\in k[x,y,z]$ be two homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$ without common factor. We want to know what are the ...
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Does $\delta$-invariant give a sufficient condition for flatness for plane curve singularities?

Let $\pi:\mathcal{C}\to S$ be a morphism of schemes such that $\mathcal{C} \subset \mathbb{C}^2 \times S$ with the inclusion map commuting with the natural projection to $S$ and for all $s \in S$, $\...
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Singularities of algebraic curves, and torsion of the pull-back of the differential module by the normalisation

The problem in the following : given an algebraic curve $C$, it's well-known that a smooth projective model of $C$ can be construct as the set of discrete valuations $v$ on it's function field $\...
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Is there any explicit result on the triangulated category of singularities of a curve?

This question is related to this MO question. Let $X$ be a projective curve over a field $\mathbb{C}$. We have the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves $D^b_{coh}(X)$ and the derived category ...
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the blowing up of a plane curve playing me tricks.

Sorry for the easy question but this is driving me crazy. Consider the blowing up of the curve $(y^2-x^3)^2+y^5$ at the origin. On the first blowing up, on the chart that intersects the exceptional ...
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"Arithmetic genus" of a plane curve singularity.

I believe that the following questions are very basic, but I don't know how to get a reference. Consider a curve in the plane $C\in \mathbb C^2$ with a singularity at $0$ and suppose it is ...
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Determining the desingularization from the complete local ring

Suppose I have a curve $C$ over a field $k$ and that $p$ is a singular point of $C$. Let $f : X \to C$ be the desingularization of $C$ at $p$. Then for each $s \in f^{-1}(p)$ we have a map of local ...
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Is the space of degree $d$ curves with marked smooth points dense inside the space of curves with marked points?

Let $\mathcal{D} \approx \mathbb{P}^{\delta_d} $ be the space of nonzero homogeneous degree $d$ polynomials in three variables upto scaling, where $\delta_d = \frac{d(d+3)}{2} $ (basically degree $...
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Is there an upper bound and a lower bound on the contribution to the genus, for a singularity of codimension k?

To make my question precise, suppose you have a complex curve locally given by $$f(x,y) =0 $$ and $f$ has singularity of type $\chi_k$ at the origin. The codimension of this singularity is $k$. Let ...
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Does the Newton polytope characterize the equisingular i.e topological type?

Whenever, people talk about singular plane curves they talk about their Newton polytope which is obviously coordinate dependent. I understand that with some conditions over the singular curve, some ...
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Tangent cones to Severi strata

Let $\mathbb{C}[[x,y]]/f(x,y)$ be a reduced plane curve singularity. The base of a versal family can be taken to be (an open subset in) $\Lambda = \mathbb{C}[x,y]/(f,\partial_x f, \partial_y f)$; the ...