Construction of bicuspidal rational complex projective plane curves

Abstract

We give several constructions of bicuspidal rational complex projective plane curves, and list the Newton pairs and the multiplicity sequences of the singularities on the resulting curves. Although the existence of some of the listed cusp configurations is already proved in the literature, the advantage of our approach is that on one hand we explicitly state the Newton pairs and the multiplicity sequences of the singularities on the curves, on the other hand, we also give birational transformations transforming a conic or a bicuspidal curve with simple equation to these rational bicuspidal curves with given cusp configurations.