On the configurations of nine points on a cubic curve

zbMATH Open1465.14034arXiv1912.08115MaRDI QIDQ4990107FDOQ4990107

Authors: Alessandro Logar, Sara Paronitti 

Publication date: 28 May 2021

Abstract: We study the reciprocal position of nine points in the plane, according to their collinearities. In particular, we consider the case in which the nine points are contained in an irreducible cubic curve and we give their classification. If we consider two configurations different when the associated incidence structures are not isomorphic, we see that there are 131 configurations that can be realized in $mathbb{P}_{mathbbQ}^2$, and there are two more in $mathbb{P}_K^2$, where $K=mathbbQ[sqrt-3]$ (one of the two is the Hesse configuration given by the nine inflection points of a cubic curve). Finally, we compute the possible Hilbert functions of the ideals of the nine points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08115

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert functioncubic curveincidence structureconfigurations of points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other designs, configurations (05B30) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Elliptic curves (14H52) Configuration theorems in linear incidence geometry (51A20)

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• Points of ninth order on cubic curves
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• CoCoA
• SageMath

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