Sur les points d'inflexion des courbes algébriques
Based on the discovery that the δ-invariant is the symplectic codimension of a parametric plane curve singularity, we classify the simple and uni-modal singularities of parametric plane curves under symplectic equivalence. A new symplectic deformation theory of curve singularities is established, and the corresponding cyclic symplectic moduli spaces are reconstructed as canonical ambient spaces for the diffeomorphism moduli spaces which are no longer Hausdorff spaces.
We investigate the relations between the syzygies of the Jacobian ideal of the defining equation for a plane curve and the stability of the sheaf of logarithmic vector fields along , the freeness of the divisor and the Torelli properties of (in the sense of Dolgachev-Kapranov). We show in particular that curves with a small number of nodes and cusps are Torelli in this sense.