On a question of H. A. Schwarz

DOI10.1142/S0219493721400049zbMATH Open1476.14005arXiv1912.06807OpenAlexW3080130523MaRDI QIDQ4959352FDOQ4959352

Authors: Samuel James Patterson 

Publication date: 13 September 2021

Published in: Stochastics and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is a contribution to the study of tetrahedra with rational side lengths and rational volume. The problem can be formulated as a study of a hyperelliptic variety attached to the Cayley-Menger determinant. The problem posed by Schwarz was as to whether this variety is rational over the rationals. In a thesis that was never published Otto Schulz proved in 1912 that the variety was rational over $mathbbQ(sqrt-1)$. This does not seem to have appeared eleswhere nor, apparently, has the question been studied since then. In this paper we take up an idea of Kurt Heegner to reprove the theorem using the theory of Weddle surfaces. Although this does not lead to a final answer to Schwarz question it seems likely that it is negative.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06807

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zbMATH Keywords

Kummer surfacesCayley-Menger formularational quadrilaterals and tetrahedrarationality of varietiessymmetroidtetrahedroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) [https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?search=%2211G30%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

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