Construction algorithms for rational cubic surfaces (Q507142)

By a criterion of Swinnerton-Dyer it is known that a smooth cubic surface \(S\) defined over \(\mathbb Q\) is birationally trivial over \(\mathbb Q\) if and only if \(S({\mathbb Q})\not=\emptyset\) and \(S\) contains a Gal\((\overline{\mathbb Q}, {\mathbb Q})\)-stable set of \(2\), \(3\) or \(6\) skew lines. In this paper, authors describe birationally trivial smooth cubic surfaces over \(\mathbb Q\) and provide algorithms to construct explicit cubic surfaces for each of the cases in Swinnerton-Dyer's criterion.