Geometric Genus - Genus of Singular Varieties

Genus of Singular Varieties

The definition of geometric genus is carried over classically to singular curves C, by decreeing that

pg(C)

is the geometric genus of the normalization C′. That is, since the mapping

C′ → C

is birational, the definition is extended by birational invariance.

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