Computing invariants of cubic surfaces

DOI10.4418/2020.75.2.4zbMATH Open1454.14143arXiv1909.00497MaRDI QIDQ5140682FDOQ5140682

Authors: Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans, Jörg Jahnel 

Publication date: 16 December 2020

Abstract: We report on the computation of invariants, covariants, and contravariants of cubic surfaces. All algorithms are implemented in the computer algebra system magma.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00497

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zbMATH Keywords

transvectionClebsch transferClebsch-Salmon invariantsinvariants of cubic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)

Cites Work

• The Magma algebra system. I: The user language
• Computational invariant theory
• Classical algebraic geometry. A modern view
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• Geometric Invariant Theory
• Stability of projective varieties
• The geometry of some special arithmetic quotients
• On the automorphisms of hypersurfaces
• Moduli spaces and the inverse Galois problem for cubic surfaces
• Spaces of sums of powers and real rank boundaries

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• Testing the equivalence of planar curves
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Uses Software

• Magma

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