Sextactic points on the Fermat cubic curve and arrangements of conics (Q6170815)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7725353
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Sextactic points on the Fermat cubic curve and arrangements of conics
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7725353

    Statements

    Sextactic points on the Fermat cubic curve and arrangements of conics (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    10 August 2023
    0 references
    In the paper under review, the authors give some enumerative results on arrangements of lines and conics that can be constructed using the geometry of the \(27\) sextactic points of the Fermat cubic curve in the complex projective plane. There are two problems I need to report. In order to verify some of the enumerative claims made by the authors, we need to use symbolic computation software such as \texttt{SINGULAR}, and the authors tell us that we can use their script via a link provided. However, it does not work (the file does not exist under the link), so it causes some perturbations. On the other hand, we can use the list of all \(27\) sextactic points provided by the authors and write our own scripts. Here is the second problem, because the coordinates of the point \(S_{13}\) (nomen omen) are not correct (there is a typo) and we should have \(S_{13}=[-\frac{1}{2}\varepsilon \mu ^2 :\frac{1}{2}(\varepsilon + 1)\mu^2 : 1]\). After correcting the coordinates of \(S_{13}\), we can quickly check some statements. For example, we can find an interesting point-line configuration \((27_{9},81_{3})\), and this is the content of Lemma 4.8 therein, i.e. we have a configuration of \(27\) sextactic points, each of multiplicity \(9\), and \(81\) lines, such that each line contains exactly \(3\) sextactic points. This result is in the same direction as the results obtained by Feld in 1936 and Mandan in 1981. More precisely, \textit{J. M. Feld} [Am. Math. Mon. 43, 549--555 (1936; Zbl 0015.26703)] showed that if we take the \(27\) sextactic points and \(9\) inflection points of any smooth plane cubic curve over the complex numbers, we can find a point-line configuration of the form \((36_{7}, 84_{3})\). Then \textit{R. Mandan} [Čas. Pěstování Mat. 106, 354--356 (1981; Zbl 0474.51002)] tells us that we can improve on a result due to Feld and obtain a point-line configuration of the form \((36_{16},192_{3})\). Furthermore, the authors show that there exists a set of \(5976\) smooth conics containing six of the sextactic points to the Fermat cubic curve.
    0 references
    0 references
    osculating curves
    0 references
    division points
    0 references
    Fermat cubic
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references

    Identifiers

    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references