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First steps towards total reality of meromorphic functions

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It was earlier conjectured by the second and the third authors that any rational curve g:CP1CPng:{\mathbb C}P^1\to {\mathbb C}P^n such that the inverse images of all its flattening points lie on the real line RP1CP1{\mathbb R}P^1\subset {\mathbb C}P^1 is real algebraic up to a linear fractional transformation of the image CPn{\mathbb C}P^n. (By a flattening point pp on gg we mean a point at which the Frenet nn-frame (g,g,...,g(n))(g',g'',...,g^{(n)}) is degenerate.) Below we extend this conjecture to the case of meromorphic functions on real algebraic curves of higher genera and settle it for meromorphic functions of degrees 2,32,3 and several other cases.

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@article{arxiv.math/0605075,
  title  = {First steps towards total reality of meromorphic functions},
  author = {T. Ekedahl and B. Shapiro and M. Shapiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0605075},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure

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