On meromorphic pencils, cusp singularities and holomorphic foliations in the complex plane
Abstract
We study polynomial holomorphic -forms in that are homologically trivial along the fibers of meromorphic pencils of the form where are holomorphic functions (possibly polynomials) in general position and . We first establish a homological characterization of relative exactness: if a polynomial -form has vanishing periods along every closed path contained in the fibers , then decomposes as where for suitable polynomials and . In the homogeneous case, degree constraints force to be constant. We then apply this integration principle to foliations leaving invariant plane curve singularities of cusp type Under a natural genericity (Morse type) condition, we prove a globalization theorem showing that homological triviality along the associated pencil implies that is a polynomial cusp basic form, In particular, such foliations admit Liouvillian first integrals of hypergeometric type. Our results provide a bridge between relative cohomology, the geometry of rational pencils, and the analytic structure of cusp foliations, yielding explicit normal forms and first integrals under homological hypotheses.
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@article{arxiv.2607.18526,
title = {On meromorphic pencils, cusp singularities and holomorphic foliations in the complex plane},
author = {Bruno Scardua},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18526},
year = {2026}
}