Local intersection multiplicity conjecture for cuspidal curves and their 2-Hessians
Local intersection multiplicity conjecture for cuspidal curves and their 2-Hessians
Let be a cuspidal plane algebraic curve and let be its 2-Hessian curve. At a point , write for the multiplicity of at , for its delta invariant, for the intersection multiplicity of with its tangent at , and for its intersection multiplicity with an osculating conic at . Local intersection multiplicity conjecture. The intersection multiplicity is determined as follows. If , then
If , then
The conjecture gives a local geometric interpretation of the correction terms in the global Bézout formula for the intersection of a cuspidal curve with its 2-Hessian. It was verified for all rational cuspidal curves of degrees and ; the corresponding analogous result for Hessian curves is known, while the general case remains open.
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Paul Aleksander Maugesten and Torgunn Karoline Moe, “The 2-Hessian and sextactic points on plane algebraic curves”, arXiv:1709.01698 (2018).
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