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    (1995) gave a different construction of a quartic with twenty-eight bitangents, formed by projecting a cubic surface; twenty-seven of the bitangents to Shioda's...
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  • and internal tangent lines are the bitangents to this quartic curve. A generic quartic curve has 28 bitangents. A third generalization considers tangent...
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  • exactly one quartic curve that passes through a set of 14 distinct points in general position, since a quartic has 14 degrees of freedom. A quartic curve can...
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    a bitangent must have degree at least 4. The case of the 28 bitangents of a quartic was a celebrated piece of geometry of the nineteenth century, a relationship...
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    Ampersand curve (category Quartic curves)
    as a quartic plane curve that has 28 real bitangents, the maximum possible for bitangents of a quartic. It is the special case of the Plücker quartic (...
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    permutation of the points. These 28 triangles may be viewed as corresponding to the 28 bitangents of a quartic. There are 84 ways of specifying a triangle...
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  • curve Bézout's theorem Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Bitangent Bitangents of a quartic Cartesian coordinate system Caustic Cesàro equation Chord...
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  • in pairs to the 28 bitangents of a quartic. Degree 3: these are essentially cubic surfaces in P3; the cubic surface is the image of the anticanonical embedding...
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  • Aronhold set One of the 288 sets of 7 of the 28 bitangents of a quartic curve corresponding to the 7 odd theta characteristics of a normal set. associated...
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  • is a degree 60 invariant vanishing on ternary quartics with an inflection bitangent. (Dolgachev 2012, 6.4) The catalecticant of a ternary quartic is the...
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    ADE classification (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025)
    on a cubic surface, the 28 bitangents of a plane quartic curve, and the 120 tritangent planes of a canonic sextic curve of genus 4. The first of these...
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    Trott curve, a quartic with four components, are examples of M-curves. This theorem formed the background to Hilbert's sixteenth problem. In a recent development...
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  • the remaining 36 of the other; this is basic in the question of counting bitangents, as it corresponds to the 28 bitangents of a quartic. The geometric...
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    axis replaces y by (x2 + y2)1/2, and clearing the square root produces a quartic equation for the torus: 0 = ( x 2 + y 2 + z 2 + R 2 − r 2 ) 2 − 4 R 2...
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  • ending in -ic often refer to the degree of a form, as in linear or monic, quadric or quadratic, cubic, quartic or biquadratic, quintic, sextic, septic...
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  • 2}(d-1)(d-2).} So, for example, a non-singular quartic plane curve is of genus 3 and has 28 bitangents and 24 points of inflection. Curves are classified...
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    Italo Jose Dejter (category Argentine people of Moldovan-Jewish descent)
    corresponding dual map of Coxeter notation (3,7)8. Other aspects of this work are also cited in the following pages: Bitangents of a quartic. Coxeter graph....
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