• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.461-473
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• 2016

Let C be a projective plane curve of degree d whose singularities are all isolated. Suppose C is not concurrent lines. P loski proved that the Milnor number of an isolated singlar point of C is less than or equal to $(d-1)^2-{\lfloor}\frac{d}{2}{\rfloor}$. In this paper, we prove that the Milnor sum of C is also less than or equal to $(d-1)^2-{\lfloor}\frac{d}{2}{\rfloor}$ and the equality holds if and only if C is a P loski curve. Furthermore, we find a bound for the Milnor sum of projective plane curves in terms of GIT.