An arithmetic count of osculating lines

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From the Introduction:\N``A classical result by Salmon states that, over \(k=\mathbb{C}\), for a general smooth surface \(Y\subset {\mathbb{P}^3}_{\mathbb C}\) and a general point \(p \in Y\) there are exactly two lines meeting \(Y\) at \(p\) with contact order \(3\) [...]. That result does not depend on the degree of \(Y\). A possible generalization of Salmon's result consists on the number of rational curves \(\mathcal{C} \subset {\mathbb{P}^{n+1}}_{\mathbb C}\) meeting a hypersurface with contact order \((n+2)\operatorname{deg}(\mathcal{C})-1\) at a fixed general point. [...] They are called osculating curves. In particular, the number of osculating lines to a hypersurface \(Y \subset {\mathbb{P}^{n+1}}_{\mathbb C}\) is \(n!\).\N\NIn this paper, the author generalizes the last result to any perfect field \(k\) using \(\mathcal{A}^1\)-homotopy. It is the completion of the semi-ring of isomorphism classes of nondegenerate, symmetric bilinear forms on finite dimensional vector spaces over \(k\).



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