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Multiple canonical surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. W. Babbage
D. W. Babbage
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Magdalene College
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1. If the canonical series of an algebraic curve of genus p is compounded of an involution of sets of points on the curve then the involution must be rational and of order two, and the canonical model is a repeated rational normal curve of order p − 1 with 2p + 2 branch points. An analogous question suggests itself for algebraic surfaces. Under what conditions is the canonical model of a surface, whose geometric genus is not less than two, a multiple surface, and what in this case are the properties of the simple surface on which the multiple surface is based? In this paper we give particular examples of multiple canonical surfaces and attempt to go some way towards the solution of the general problem.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1934 , pp. 297 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1934

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† Although it has not been established that F 48* can always be obtained as a partial quadric section of V 3 it is sufficient for our purpose that it behaves as though it were thus obtained.

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