A formula relating inflections, bitangencies and the Milnor number of a plane curve

Dias, Fabio; Oset Sinha, Raúl; Ruas, Maria Aparecida

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-11980-0

A formula relating inflections, bitangencies and the Milnor number of a plane curve
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Abstract:

In this article we obtain a formula relating inflections, bitangencies and the Milnor number of a plane curve germ. Moreover, we present an extension of the formula obtained by the first author and Luis Fernando Mello for a class of plane curves with singularities.

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