The discriminant of a cubic surface

DOI10.1007/S10711-011-9643-7MaRDI QIDQ438959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans, Jörg Jahnel

Publication date 31 July 2012

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0721

zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfacediscriminantpentahedral normal formrational point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Arithmetic ground fields for surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J20) Fano varieties (14J45)

Abstract: We construct explicit examples of cubic surfaces over $$ such that the 27 lines are acted upon by the index two subgroup of the maximal possible Galois group. This is the simple group of order $25920$. Our examples are given in pentahedral normal form with rational coefficients. For such cubic surfaces, we study the discriminant and show its relation to the index two subgroup. On the corresponding parameter space, we search for rational points, discuss their asymptotic, and construct an accumulating subvariety.

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