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Real plane algebraic curves with asymptotically maximal number of even ovals

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is known for a long time that a nonsingular real algebraic curve of degree 2k in the projective plane cannot have more than 7/2*k^2-9/4*k+3/2evenovals.Weshowherethatthisupperboundisasymptoticallysharp,thatistosayweconstructafamilyofcurvesofdegree2ksuchthatp/k2tendsto7/4 even ovals. We show here that this upper bound is asymptotically sharp, that is to say we construct a family of curves of degree 2k such that p/k^2 tends to 7/4 as k tends to infinity, where p is the number of even ovals of the curves. We also show that the same kind of result is valid dealing with odd ovals.

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@article{arxiv.math/0411097,
  title  = {Real plane algebraic curves with asymptotically maximal number of even ovals},
  author = {Erwan brugalle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0411097},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures