Plane Curves With Minimal Discriminant

Denis Simon; Martin Weimann

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Plane Curves With Minimal Discriminant

Denis Simon·Martin Weimann

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We give lower bounds for the degree of the discriminant with respect to y of separable polynomials f in K[x,y] over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Depending on the invariants involved in the lower bound, we give a geometrical characterisation of those polynomials having minimal discriminant, and give an explicit construction of all such polynomials in many cases. In particular, we show that irreducible monic polynomials with minimal discriminant coincide with coordinate polynomials. We obtain analogous partial results for the case of nonmonic or reducible polynomials by studying their GL2(K[x])-orbit and by establishing some combinatorial constraints on their Newton polytope. Our results suggest some natural extensions of the embedding line theorem of Abhyankar-Moh and of the Nagata-Coolidge problem to the case of unicuspidal curves of P1 x P1.

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Denis Simon, Martin Weimann. 2015-07-04. Plane Curves With Minimal Discriminant. https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01091

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