## Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences

### On the topology of arrangements of a cubic and its inflectional tangents

#### Abstract

A $k$-Artal arrangement is a reducible algebraic curve composed of a smooth cubic and $k$ inflectional tangents. By studying the topological properties of their subarrangements, we prove that for $k=3,4,5,6$, there exist Zariski pairs of $k$-Artal arrangements. These Zariski pairs can be distinguished in a geometric way by the number of collinear triples in the set of singular points of the arrangement contained in the cubic.

#### Article information

Source
Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. Volume 93, Number 6 (2017), 50-53.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 2 June 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1496369015

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3792/pjaa.93.50

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06790374

#### Citation

Bannai, Shinzo; Guerville-Ballé, Benoît; Shirane, Taketo; Tokunaga, Hiro-o. On the topology of arrangements of a cubic and its inflectional tangents. Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. 93 (2017), no. 6, 50--53. doi:10.3792/pjaa.93.50. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1496369015

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