Paper 4, Section II, I
Part II, 2018
State a theorem which describes the canonical divisor of a smooth plane curve in terms of the divisor of a hyperplane section. Express the degree of the canonical divisor and the genus of in terms of the degree of . [You need not prove these statements.]
From now on, we work over . Consider the curve in defined by the equation
Let be its projective completion. Show that is smooth.
Compute the genus of by applying the Riemann-Hurwitz theorem to the morphism induced from the rational map . [You may assume that the discriminant of is .]