On the Wronskian combinants of binary forms (Q878659)

This is a technical paper in classical invariant theory. Given a sequence \(\mathcal A\) of binary forms, the authors construct the set of Wronskian combinants of \(\mathcal A\). They show that the span of \(\mathcal A\) can be recovered from the combinants as the solution of an SL(2)-invariant differential equation. Their main result characterizes those sequences of binary forms that can arise as Wronskian combinants, and they deduce several identities relating Wronskians to transvectants.