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The aim of this chapter is to collect the definitions and basic properties of the curves that we will deal with throughout the manuscript.

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Bini, G., Felici, F., Melo, M., Viviani, F. (2014). Singular Curves. In: Geometric Invariant Theory for Polarized Curves. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11337-1_2

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