The enumerative theory of conics after Halphen

DOI10.1007/BFB0076501MaRDI QIDQ580472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eduardo Casas-Alvero, Sebastian Xambó

Publication date 1986

Published in Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0076501

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic numbersenumerative theory of conicsintersection ringpolar lineproper solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geometry (51-01) Projective analytic geometry (51N15)

Review text

This book gives a detailed and self-contained exposition of the enumerative theory of conics. The authors survey the classical approaches to the subject and provide modern proofs (several are new), thus tying up with the most recent research. They give a very good introduction to this ``oldest part of enumerative geometry. In particular they explain the classical terminology and concepts, and thus facilitate the reading of older papers. The first part, {\S}{\S} 1-14, reworks Halphen's theory about ``proper solutions, and leads to what are called Halphen's first and second formula. The first of these gives the proper number of members of conics in a 1-dimensional system satisfying a given condition, in terms of local and global characteristic pairs of the condition and the system, and of the degenerations of the system. The second one gives the number of conics properly satisfying \(5\quad given\quad conditions,\) in terms of characteristic numbers of the conditions. The second part of the book gives a general treatment for conditions of any codimension. In particular, the appropriate intersection ring, \(Hal^{\bullet}(W)\), is constructed - this is the abstract ring of De Concini-Procesi [cf. \textit{C. De Concini} and \textit{C. Procesi}, ``Complete symmetric varieties. II, in Algebraic groups and related topics, Proc. Symp., Kyoto and Nagoya 1983, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 6, 481-513 (1985; Zbl 0596.14041)] in the case of conics.

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