Abstract
A k-ellipse is a plane curve consisting of all points whose distances from k fixed foci sum to a constant. We determine the singularities and genus of its Zariski closure in the complex projective plane. The paper resolves an open problem stated by Nie, Parrilo and Sturmfels in 2008.
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