Log canonical thresholds of high multiplicity reduced plane curves

Abstract

We compute log canonical thresholds of reduced plane curves of degree $d$ at points of multiplicity $d-1$. As a consequence, we describe all possible values of log canonical threshold that are less than $2/(d-1)$ for reduced plane curves of degree $d$. In addition, we compute log canonical thresholds for all reduced plane curves of degree less than 6.

14 pages, to appear in Glasgow Mathematical Journal