Seminario - The Bourbaki degree of a plane projective curve

The present work introduces the Bourbaki degree as the algebraic multiplicity of a Bourbaki ideal corresponding to choices of minimal generators of minimal degree of the given graded module. Since the main intent is a study of plane curve singularities via this new numerical invariant, accordingly, quite naturally, the focus is on the case where the standing graded module is the first syzygy module of the gradient ideal of a reduced form f กส k[x, y, z] จC i.e., the main component of the module of logarithmic derivations of the corresponding curve. The overall goal of this project is to allow for a tiny  facet of classification of projective plane curves based on the behavior of this new numerical invariant, with emphasis on results about its lower and upper bounds. In particular, we revisit results of du Plessis and Wall, and of Dimca and co-authors.