The Hessian discriminant

DOI10.4418/2020.75.2.12MaRDI QIDQ5140692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rodica Dinu, Tim Seyannaeve

Publication date 16 December 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06681

zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfacesHessian discriminantHurwitz formSalmon invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special surfaces (14J25) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)

Abstract: We express the Hessian discriminant of a cubic surface in terms of fundamental invariants. This answers Question 15 from the emph{27 questions on the cubic surface}. We also explain how to compute the fundamental invariants for smooth cubics of rank 6.

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3101938 (Why is no real title available?)
• Autoequivalences of twisted \(K3\) surfaces
• Classical algebraic geometry. A modern view
• Hessians and the moduli space of cubic surfaces
• On the Classification of Cubic Surfaces
• Power sums, Gorenstein algebras, and determinantal loci. With an appendix `The Gotzmann theorems and the Hilbert scheme' by Anthony Iarrobino and Steven L. Kleiman
• Quaternary cubic forms and projective algebraic threefolds
• Ranks and singularities of cubic surfaces
• Ranks and symmetric ranks of cubic surfaces
• The Hurwitz form of a projective variety
• The convex hull of a variety

Cited in

(2)

• Hessian Matrix vs. Gauss–Newton Hessian Matrix
• Twenty-seven questions about the cubic surface

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Macaulay2

This page was built for publication: The Hessian discriminant

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5140692)