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Pencils of plane curves and characteristic varieties

A. Dimca
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We give a geometric approach to the relation between the irreducible components of the characteristic varieties of local systems on a plane curve arrangement complement and the associated pencils of plane curves discovered recently by M. Falk and S. Yuzvinsky in the case of line arrangements, see mathAG/0603166. In this case, this geometric point of view was already hinted to by A. Libgober and S. Yuzvinsky. Our study yields new geometric insight on the translated components of the characteristic varieties, relating them to the multiplicities of curves in the associated pencil, in close analogy to the compact situation treated by A. Beauville.

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A. Dimca. 2006-07-13. Pencils of plane curves and characteristic varieties. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606442

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