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Rational quintics in the real plane

Algebraic Geometry 2019-10-14 v3

Abstract

From a topological viewpoint, a rational curve in the real projective plane is generically a smoothly immersed circle and a finite collection of isolated points. We give an isotopy classification of generic rational quintics in RP2\mathbb{RP}^2 in the spirit of Hilbert's 16th problem.

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@article{arxiv.1509.05228,
  title  = {Rational quintics in the real plane},
  author = {Ilia Itenberg and Grigory Mikhalkin and Johannes Rau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05228},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

73 pages, update to accepted version (Transactions of the AMS)

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