Cubic surfaces on the singular locus of the Eckardt hypersurface

DOI10.4418/2020.75.2.7zbMATH Open1454.14145arXiv1909.05554OpenAlexW3188209098MaRDI QIDQ5140686FDOQ5140686

Authors: Hanieh Keneshlou 

Publication date: 16 December 2020

Abstract: The Eckardt hypersurface in $mathbb{P}^{19}$ parameterizes smooth cubic surfaces with an Eckardt point, which is a point common to three of the $27$ lines on a smooth cubic surface. We describe the cubic surfaces lying on the singular locus of the model of this hypersurface in $mathbb{P}^4$, obtained via restriction to the space of cubic surfaces possessing a so-called Sylvester form. We prove that inside the moduli of cubics, the singular locus corresponds to a reducible surface with two rational irreducible components intersecting along two rational curves. The two curves intersect in two points corresponding to the Clebsch and the Fermat cubic surfaces. We observe that the cubic surfaces parameterized by the two components or the two rational curves are distinguished by the number of Eckardt points and automorphism groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05554

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zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfacesEckardt points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)

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• Classical algebraic geometry. A modern view
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• Twenty-seven questions about the cubic surface
• Eckardt surfaces
• Degree of strata of singular cubic surfaces
• The Eckardt point configuration of cubic surfaces revisited
• CONFIGURATION SPACES OF NON-SINGULAR CUBIC SURFACES WITH ECKARDT POINTS

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• Macaulay2
• GitHub

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