Zariski multiples associated with quartic curves

Abstract

. We investigate Zariski multiples of plane curves Z 1 ,...,Z N such that each Z i is a union of a smooth quartic curve, some of its bitangents, and some of its 4-tangent conics. We show that, for plane curves of this type, the deformation types are equal to the homeomorphism types, and that the number of deformation types grows as O ( d 62 ) when the degree d of the plane curves tends to infinity.