Reconstructing general plane quartics from their inflection lines

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7599MaRDI QIDQ5222753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Pacini, Damiano Testa

Publication date 3 July 2019

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05776

zbMATH Keywords

inflection lines of plane curvesinvariants of quartic forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Plane and space curves (14H50) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: Let $C$ be a general plane quartic and let $mFl(C)$ denote the configuration of inflection lines of $C$. We show that if $D$ is any plane quartic with the same configuration of inflection lines $mFl(C)$, then the quartics $C$ and $D$ coincide.

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