On the coincidences of Pascal lines

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Authors Jaydeep Chipalkatti

Publication date 11 March 2016

Published in Forum Geometricorum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1447, http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2016volume16/FG201601index.html

zbMATH Keywords

Pascal linessextulpes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

Abstract: Let $mathcalK$ denote a smooth conic in the complex projective plane. Pascal's theorem says that, given six points $A,B,C,D,E,F$ on $mathcalK$, the three intersection points $AEcapBF,ADcapCF,BDcapCE$ are collinear. This defines the Pascal line of the array $$, and one gets sixty such lines in general by permuting the points. In this paper we consider the variety $Psi$ of sextuples $A,dots,F$, for which some of these Pascal lines coincide. We show that $Psi$ has two irreducible components: a five-dimensional component of sextuples in involution, and a four-dimensional component of the so-called `ricochet configurations'. This gives a complete synthetic characterisation of points in $Psi$. The proof relies upon Gr"obner basis techniques to solve multivariate polynomial equations.

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• Maple
• Macaulay2

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