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Pencils of plane cubics with one base point

Algebraic Geometry 2025-08-04 v3

Abstract

We study pencils of plane cubics with only one base point and general member smooth, giving a complete classification. Under the additional hypothesis that all members are irreducible, we prove that there exists a unique non-isotrivial pencil with these properties up to projective transformation. We compare our construction with the classical approaches given by Gattazzo, Beauville and Miranda-Persson.

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@article{arxiv.2407.04569,
  title  = {Pencils of plane cubics with one base point},
  author = {Riccardo Moschetti and Gian Pietro Pirola and Lidia Stoppino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04569},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, 9 figures. This is an expanded revised version with respect to the one accepted in Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo Series 2