{
  "id": "0811.0467",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2008-11-04T15:47:46.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-06-16T08:41:24.000Z",
  "title": "On the branch curve of a general projection of a surface to a plane",
  "authors": [
    "Ciro Ciliberto",
    "Flaminio Flamini"
  ],
  "comment": "14 pages. Accepted for publication in Transactions of AMS",
  "categories": [
    "math.AG"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this paper we prove that the branch curve of a general projection of a surface to the plane is irreducible, with only nodes and cusps.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-06-16T08:41:24.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "14N05",
      "14E20",
      "14E22",
      "14J10",
      "14E05"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "general projection",
      "branch curve"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 14,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008arXiv0811.0467C"
    }
  }
}