Irreducibility conjecture for binodal and cuspidal plane-section curves

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Let S⊂P3S\subset\mathbf{P}^3 be a general surface of degree d≥4d\geq 4. Let V2(S,OS(1))V_2(S,\mathcal{O}_S(1)) be the curve of binodal plane sections of SS, and let Vκ(S,OS(1))V_\kappa(S,\mathcal{O}_S(1)) be the curve of cuspidal plane sections of SS. Binodal-and-cuspidal irreducibility conjecture. Both curves are irreducible. This is proposed as a generalization of the paper's theorem for quartic surfaces; no proof for all degrees d≥4d\geq 4 is supplied.

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Ciro Ciliberto and Thomas Dedieu, “Limits of pluri-tangent planes to quartic surfaces”, arXiv:1304.7463 (2014).

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