On ramified covers of the projective plane II: Generalizing Segre’s theory
The classical Segre theory gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a plane curve to be a branch curve of a (generic) projection of a smooth surface in . We generalize this result for smooth surfaces in a projective space of any dimension in the following way: given two plane curves, and , we give a necessary and sufficient condition for to be the branch curve of a surface in and to be the image of the double curve of a -model of . In the classical Segre theory, a plane curve...