The relations among invariants of points on the projective line

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2009.07.013MaRDI QIDQ1032849zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Snowden, R. Vakil, Benjamin J. Howard, John Millson

Publication date 5 November 2009

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2437

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We consider the ring of invariants of n points on the projective line. The space (P^1)^n // PGL_2 is perhaps the first nontrivial example of a Geometry Invariant Theory quotient. The construction depends on the weighting of the n points. Kempe discovered a beautiful set of generators (at least in the case of unit weights) in 1894. We describe the full ideal of relations for all possible weightings. In some sense, there is only one equation, which is quadric except for the classical case of the Segre cubic primal, for n=6 and weight 1^6. The cases of up to 6 points are long known to relate to beautiful familiar geometry. The case of 8 points turns out to be richer still.

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