IJPAM: Volume 36, No. 2 (2007)

GONALITY OF THE NORMALIZATION
OF CERTAIN PLANE CURVES

E. Ballico
Department of Mathematics
University of Trento
380 50 Povo (Trento) - Via Sommarive, 14, ITALY
e-mail: ballico@science.unitn.it


Abstract.Here we compute the gonality (always computed by a pencil of lines) of the normalization of certain plane curves.

Received: February 21, 2007

AMS Subject Classification: 14H50, 14H20, 14B05, 14N05

Key Words and Phrases: plane curve, gonality

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2007
Volume: 36
Issue: 2