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Geometry related to the key del Pezzo surface and the associated mapping of plane cubics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

W. L. Edge
W. L. Edge
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Montagu House, 67 Mill Hill, Musselburgh, East Lothian, EH21 7RL
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Synopsis

When the points of a projective space [9] map ternary cubics the maps of perfect cubes are the points of a del Pezzo surface F. Several manifolds linked with F are listed and the cubics mapped on these are noted. A new approach leads to the first of Aronhold's two invariants.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 107 , Issue 1-2 , 1987 , pp. 75 - 86
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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