Enumeration of cones over cubic scrolls (Q2480586)

The authors address the problem of enumerating families of codimension two cones over a cubic scroll \(S_i\) of dimension \(i=1,2,3\), satisfying appropriate incidence conditions with lines. In particular, they show how to compute---with the help of a \url{Maple} script---the characteristic numbers of such families, and find explicit results for the 18-dimensional family of cones over a varying cubic surface scroll in \(\mathbb P^5\).