%0 Book Section %T Topological and arithmetical properties of rational plane curves publisher Editorial Complutense %D 2004 %U 84-7491-767-0 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53232 %X We study properties of arrangements of rational plane curves. The existence of such curves with prescribed topological data has a lot of geometric restrictions. We show how to use the theory of singular complex analytic spaces to obtain such restrictions. We also study topological properties of such arrangements %~