IJPAM: Volume 48, No. 3 (2008)

GONALITY AND REDUCIBLE 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 of some reducible curves in the plane or in the Hirzebruch surface $F_e$, $e \ge 0$.

Received: August 8, 2008

AMS Subject Classification: 14H20, 14H50, 14H51

Key Words and Phrases: reducible curve, gonality, reducible plane curve, Hirzebruch surface

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2008
Volume: 48
Issue: 3