ON SINGULAR PLANE QUARTICS AS LIMITS OF SMOOTH CURVES OF GENUS THREE

We compute lim t 0 Ct in 3 of some family $\pi$:Clongrightarrow$\Delta$ of plane quartics whose general members are nonsingular.

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