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In this paper we prove that the variety of complete cuspidal cubics is smooth in codimension one and that there are no first order degenerations other than Schubert's 13. We also establish a number of properties of cuspidal cubics that give a geometric understanding of the “Stammzahlen” tables of Schubert.
The authors were partially supported by the CAICYT and DGICYT
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Miret, J.M., Xambó Descamps, S. (1990). On Schubert's degenerations of cuspidal plane cubics. In: Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) Enumerative Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1436. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084046
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