RT Journal Article T1 Effective invariants of braid monodromy A1 Artal Bartolo, Enrique A1 Carmona Ruber, Jorge A1 Cogolludo Agustín, José Ignacio AB In this paper we construct new invariants of algebraic curves based on (not necessarily generic) braid monodromies. Such invariants are effective in the sense that their computation allows for the study of Zariski pairs of plane curves. Moreover, the Zariski pairs found in this work correspond to curves having conjugate equations in a number field, and hence are not distinguishableby means of computing algebraic coverings. We prove that the embeddings of the curves in the plane are not homeomorphic. We also apply these results to the classification problem of elliptic surfaces. PB American Mathematical Society SN 0002-9947 YR 2007 FD 2007 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50721 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50721 LA eng DS Docta Complutense RD 6 abr 2025