All cubics are self-isogonal (Q742519)

The question for plane self-isogonal cubics concerns the projectively extended real Euclidean plane \(E\); whenever necessary the authors complexify \(E\). Thus their main result: ``All cubics are self-isogonal'' holds only when we use as `isogonal transformation' an extension of the classical form arising from real triangles. ``An elementary Cremona transformation \(\mu\) is an isogonal transform (of the generalized form) iff the circular points are \(\mu\)-conjugate''. To prove the main result the authors undergo extensive updating of older sources. Based on the Sylvester group of a cubic they show among others: If \(Q_1,Q_2,Q_3,Q_4\) are points of a non-singular cubic \(J\) and if the points of their diagonal triangle \(\{D_1,D_2,D_3\}\) also lie on \(J\), then the tangents at \(Q_1,Q_2,Q_3,Q_4\) concur at a point of \(J\). The authors define the concepts `polar tangents' and `polar pencil' (= pencil of conics) of a point of \(J\) and investigate the automorphisms of \(J\). Moreover, the authors present a self-contained treatment of the Jacobian of three conics which generate a net and prove that all cubics are Jacobian. In a final section the authors describe alternate constructions of the self-isogonality.