The group of Weierstrass points of a plane quartic with at least eight hyperflexes

Girard, Martine

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01853-9

The group of Weierstrass points of a plane quartic with at least eight hyperflexes
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Abstract:

The group generated by the Weierstrass points of a smooth curve in its Jacobian is an intrinsic invariant of the curve. We determine this group for all smooth quartics with eight hyperflexes or more. Since Weierstrass points are closely related to moduli spaces of curves, as an application, we get bounds on both the rank and the torsion part of this group for a generic quartic having a fixed number of hyperflexes in the moduli space $\mathcal {M}_{3}$ of curves of genus 3.

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