Tritangents to smooth sextic curves

DOI10.5802/AIF.3491zbMATH Open1497.14071arXiv1909.05657OpenAlexW2972350053MaRDI QIDQ2087366FDOQ2087366

Alex Degtyarev

Publication date: 27 October 2022

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that a smooth plane sextic curve can have at most 72 tritangents, whereas a smooth real sextic may have at most 66 real tritangents.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05657

zbMATH Keywords

\(K3\) surfaceNiemeier latticesextic curvetritangent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Varieties of low degree (14N25) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20)

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• GAP
• nauty
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