Quasi-translations and singular Hessians

DOI10.4064/CM6915-3-2017zbMATH Open1396.14054arXiv1501.05168OpenAlexW2964336656WikidataQ129925738 ScholiaQ129925738MaRDI QIDQ4565086FDOQ4565086

Authors: Michiel De Bondt 

Publication date: 7 June 2018

Published in: Colloquium Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1876 in [8], the authors Paul Gordan and Max N"other classify all homogeneous polynomials h in at most five variables for which the Hessian determinant vanishes. For that purpose, they study quasi-translations which are associated with singular Hessians. We will explain what quasi-translations are and formulate some elementary properties of them. Additionally, we classify all quasi-translations with Jacobian rank one and all so-called irreducible homogeneous quasi-translations with Jacobian rank two. The latter is an important result of [8]. Using these results, we classify all quasi-translations in dimension at most three and all homogeneous quasi-translations in dimension at most four. Furthermore, we describe the connection of quasi-translation with singular Hessians, and as an application, we will classify all polynomials in dimension two and all homogeneous polynomials in dimensions three and four whose Hessian determinant vanishes. More precisely, we will show that up to linear terms, these polynomials can be expressed in n-1 linear forms, where n is the dimension, according to an invalid theorem of Hesse. In the last section, we formulate some known results and conjectures in connection with quasi-translations and singular Hessians.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05168

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zbMATH Keywords

locally nilpotent derivationHessianhomogeneousquasi-translationalgebraic dependencelinear dependencedeterminant zero

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of affine varieties (14R05) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20) Derivations and commutative rings (13N15) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10)

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• On the Theory of Gordan-Noether on Homogeneous Forms with Zero Hessian (Improved Version)
• On quadratic homogeneous quasi-translations
• Singular Hessians
• Rational maps \(H\) for which \(K(th)\) has transcendence degree 2 over \(K\)
• On the Hesse matrix of a quasi-homogeneous isolated singularity
• Hypersurfaces with vanishing Hessian via Dual Cayley Trick

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