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Anti-Zariski pairs
Abstract
In 1929, O. Zariski found a pair of complex plane algebraic curves of the same degree and with the same collection of singularities, but embedded into the plane in a topologically different way. Accordingly, such curves belong to different components of the equisingular family. This phenomenon has been intensively studied till now. In this note, we propose a different insight on this subject: Two curves C',C''⊂PP2 form an {\it anti-Zariski pair}, if (PP2,C') and (PP2,C'') are homeomorhic, but C' and C'' belong to different components of the equisingular family. We exhibit examples of anti-Zariski pairs and discuss related issues.
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BibTeX
@misc{ren2026antizariski,
title = {{Anti-Zariski pairs}},
author = {Peng Ren and Eugenii Shustin},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.20268},
eprint = {2606.20268},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20268},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Anti-Zariski pairs
AU - Peng Ren
AU - Eugenii Shustin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/27
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20268
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20268
AB - In 1929, O. Zariski found a pair of complex plane algebraic curves of the same degree and with the same collection of singularities, but embedded into the plane in a topologically different way. Accordingly, such curves belong to different components of the equisingular family. This phenomenon has been intensively studied till now. In this note, we propose a different insight on this subject: Two curves C',C''⊂PP^2 form an {\it anti-Zariski pair}, if (PP^2,C') and (PP^2,C'') are homeomorhic, but C' and C'' belong to different components of the equisingular family. We exhibit examples of anti-Zariski pairs and discuss related issues.
ER -