Yoshihara's conjecture on complements of irreducible plane curves

Let k\mathrm{k} be an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic, and let C,DP2C,D\subset {\mathbb P}^2 be irreducible curves. Two such curves are projectively equivalent if an automorphism of P2{\mathbb P}^2 sends CC to DD. Suppose that

φ ⁣:P2CP2D\varphi\colon {\mathbb P}^2\setminus C\longrightarrow {\mathbb P}^2\setminus D

is an isomorphism between their complements.

Yoshihara's conjecture. Then CC and DD are projectively equivalent.

The conjecture asserts that the complement of an irreducible plane curve determines the curve up to projective equivalence. It is refuted: a counterexample was given by Blanc in 2009.

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Primary source

Mattias Hemmig, “Isomorphisms between complements of projective plane curves”, arXiv:1902.06324 (2019).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1604.01907, arXiv:1011.6337, arXiv:0802.1255.

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