Quartic curves and their bitangents

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2011.01.007zbMATH Open1214.14049arXiv1008.4104OpenAlexW1877476807MaRDI QIDQ2430027

Bernd Sturmfels, Cynthia Vinzant, Daniel Plaumann

Publication date: 5 April 2011

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A smooth quartic curve in the complex projective plane has 36 inequivalent representations as a symmetric determinant of linear forms and 63 representations as a sum of three squares. These correspond to Cayley octads and Steiner complexes respectively. We present exact algorithms for computing these objects from the 28 bitangents. This expresses Vinnikov quartics as spectrahedra and positive quartics as Gram matrices. We explore the geometry of Gram spectrahedra and we find equations for the variety of Cayley octads. Interwoven is an exposition of much of the 19th century theory of plane quartics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4104

zbMATH Keywords

semidefinite programmingplane curvessums of squaresdeterminantal representationsGale dualitybitangents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Plane and space curves (14H50) Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

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