Computing invariants of cubic surfaces

DOI10.4418/2020.75.2.4MaRDI QIDQ5140682zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans, Jörg Jahnel

Publication date 16 December 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00497

zbMATH Keywords

Clebsch transferClebsch-Salmon invariantsinvariants of cubic surfacestransvection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)

Abstract: We report on the computation of invariants, covariants, and contravariants of cubic surfaces. All algorithms are implemented in the computer algebra system magma.

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• Magma

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