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Highly singular quintic curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. T. C. Wall
C. T. C. Wall
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX
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The origin of this paper lies in a study of the unfolding space of the stratum N16 of singularity theory, and the question, at which points of the stratum the versal deformation space ceases to be topologically trivial over the stratum. This question turns out to be closely related to the study of how a plane section (= binary quintic) of a quintic curve varies as we deform the curve, either rigidly (under GL3) or equisingularly.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 119 , Issue 2 , February 1996 , pp. 257 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996

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