Tritangents to smooth sextic curves (Q2087366)

In the paper under review, the author, using results and techniques devoted to the geometry of \(K3\) surfaces, shows that if \(C \subset \mathbb{P}^{2}\) is a (complex) smooth sextic curve and if \(t(C)\) denotes the number of tritangents, then either \(t(C) = 72\), and then \(C\) is the sextic given by \[ x^6 + y^6 + z^6 = 10(x^{3}y^{3} + y^{3}z^{3} + x^{3}z^{3}), \] \(t(C)=66\), and then \(C\) is one of the two sextic curves that are described in details in Section 9 therein, or \(t(C)\leq 65\). In fact, the author observes that the number \(t(C)\) takes all values in the set \(\{0,1,2,\dots,65,66,72\}\) except, possibly, \(61\). If we just focus on the real tritangents to a real smooth (over \(\mathbb{C}\)) sextic curve \(C \subset \mathbb{P}^{2}\), then \(t(C)\) does not exceed \(66\). It turns out that, up to real projective transformation, a smooth real sextic with \(66\) real tritangents is unique.