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On imaginary plane curves and Spin quotients of complex surfaces by complex conjugation

alg-geom 2008-02-03 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

It is proven that for any topological or analytical types of isolated singular points of plane curves, there exists a non-real irreducible plane algebraic curve of degree dd which goes through d2d^2 real distinct points and has imaginary singular points of the given types. This result is used to construct a series of examples of complex algebraic surfaces XX defined over R\R whose quotients Y=X/\conjY=X/\conj by the complex conjugation \conj\conj are SpinSpin simply connected 4-manifolds with signature 16k16k, for arbitrary integer k>0k>0.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9607017,
  title  = {On imaginary plane curves and Spin quotients of complex surfaces by complex conjugation},
  author = {Sergey Finashin and Eugenii Shustin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9607017},
  year   = {2008}
}

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