Characteristic 2 approach to bivariate interpolation problems

Abstract

We investigate bivariate interpolation problems in characteristic 2. Given a nonnegative integer $t$, we describe all the sub-linear systems generated by monomials, in which there is no curve passing through a general point with multiplicity at least $2^t$. As an application, we show that a certain linear system of plane curves with 10 base points is non-special.