• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 1995

In this paper we show that for each divisor class c of degree zero on a projective curve C (not necessarily smooth), there exists a unique function $\hat{h}_c$ on C up to bounded functions. Section 1 contain basic definitions and a brief summary of classical results on Jacobians and heights. In section 2, we prove the existence of "canonical height" on a singular curves and in section 3 we prove the analogouse results on N$\acute{e}$ron functions for singular curves. This is a part of the author's doctorial thesis at Ewha Womens University under the guidence of professor Sung Sik Woo.g Sik Woo.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.359-369
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• 2000

Let X be an integral Gorenstein projective curve with g:=pa(X) $\geq$ 3. Call $G^r_d$ (X,**) the set of all pairs (L,V) with L$\epsilon$Pic(X), deg(L) = d, V $\subseteq$ H^0$(X,L), dim(V) =r+1 and V spanning L. Assume the existence of integers d, r with 1 $\leq$ r$\leq$ d $\leq$ g-1 such that there exists an irreducible component, , of $G^r_d$(X,**) with dim($\Gamma$) $\geq$ d - 2r and such that the general L$\geq$$\Gamma$ is spanned at every point of Sing(X). Here we prove that dim( ) = d-2r and X is hyperelliptic.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.905-915
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• 1994

Let $M_g$ be the moduli space of isomorphism classes of genus g smooth curves. It is a quasi-projective variety of dimension 3g - 3, when $g > 2$. It is known that a complete subvariety of $M_g$ has dimension $< g-1 [D]$. In general it is not known whether this bound is rigid. For example, it is not known whether $M_4$ has a complete surface in it. But one knows that there is a complete curve through any given finite points [H]. Recently, an explicit example of a complete curve in moduli space is given in [G-H]. In [G-H] they constructed a complete curve of $M_3$ as an intersection of five hypersurfaces of the Satake compactification of $M_3$. One way to get a complete curve of $M_3$ is to find a complete one dimensional family $p : X \to B$ of plane quartics which gives a nontrivial morphism from the base space B to the moduli space $M_3$. This is because every non-hyperelliptic smooth curve of genus three can be realized as a nonsingular plane quartic and vice versa. This paper has come out from the effort to find such a complete family of plane quartics. Since nonsingular quartics form an affine space some fibers of p must be singular ones. In this paper, due to the semistable reduction theorem [M], we search singular plane quartics which can occur as singular fibers of the family above. We first list all distinct plane quartics in terms of singularities.