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Reduction of Plane Quartics and Dixmier-Ohno invariants

Number Theory 2024-08-30 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We characterise, in terms of Dixmier-Ohno invariants, the types of singularities that a plane quartic curve can have. We then use these results to obtain new criteria for determining the stable reduction types of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 3.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13902,
  title  = {Reduction of Plane Quartics and Dixmier-Ohno invariants},
  author = {Raymond van Bommel and Jordan Docking and Reynald Lercier and Elisa Lorenzo García},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13902},
  year   = {2024}
}