TY - JOUR AU - Gallego Rodrigo, Francisco Javier AU - González Andrés, Miguel AU - Purnaprajna, Bangere P. PY - 2008 DO - 10.1112/S0010437X07003326 SN - 0010-437X UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49667 T2 - Compositio Mathematica AB - In this paper we prove that most ropes of arbitrary multiplicity supported on smoothcurves can be smoothed. By a rope being smoothable we mean that the rope is the flat limit of a family of smooth, irreducible curves. To construct a smoothing, we... LA - eng M2 - 673 PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Degenerations of curves KW - Multiple structures KW - Deformations of morphisms TI - Deformation of finite morphisms and smoothing of ropes TY - journal article VL - 144 ER -