An interesting problem
Let n be a large positive integer. Recently I've been looking for a family of curves fn:Cn→P1 with the following properties:
- fn is flat and proper of relative dimension 1,
- the general fiber of fn is smooth, and the family is not isotrivial
- every singularity that appears in a fiber of fn is etale-locally of the form xy=tn where t is a parameter on P1...