The discriminant of a space curve is stable
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Abstract:
We prove that the discriminant of a nonsingular space curve of genus $g\geq 2$ is stable with respect to the standard action of the special linear group.References
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Additional Information
- Sean Timothy Paul
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin Madison, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1388
- Email: stpaul@math.wisc.edu
- Received by editor(s): February 14, 2013
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 8, 2013
- Published electronically: April 6, 2015
- Communicated by: Lev Boelsov
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), 3211-3214
- MSC (2010): Primary 14H50; Secondary 53C55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/12277
- MathSciNet review: 3348765