Plane sextics via dessins d'enfants
Author
Alex, D.
Date
2010Source Title
Geometry and Topology
Electronic ISSN
1364-0380
Publisher
Geometry & Topology Publications
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
393 - 433
Language
English
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Abstract
We develop a geometric approach to the study of plane sextics with a triple singular point. As an application, we give an explicit geometric description of all irreducible maximal sextics with a type E7 singular point and compute their fundamental groups. All groups found are finite; one of them is nonabelian.