On the locus of smooth plane curves with a fixed automorphism group
Abstract
In this paper, we study some aspects of the irreducibility of and its interrelation with the existence of "normal forms", i.e. non-singular plane equations (depending on a set of parameters) such that a specialization of the parameters gives a certain non-singular plane model associated to the elements of . In particular, we introduce the concept of being equation strongly irreducible (ES-Irreducible) for which the locus is represented by a single "normal form". Henn, and Komiya-Kuribayashi, observed that is ES-Irreducible. In this paper we prove that this phenomena does not occur for any odd . More precisely, let be the cyclic group of order , we prove that is not ES-Irreducible for any odd integer , and the number of its irreducible components is at least two. Furthermore, we conclude the previous result when for the locus . Lastly, we prove the analogy of these statements when is any algebraically closed field of positive characteristic such that .
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@article{arxiv.1510.06186,
title = {On the locus of smooth plane curves with a fixed automorphism group},
author = {Eslam Badr and Francesc Bars},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06186},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
This paper is a recent version of chapter 1 of arXiv:1503.01149