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Nodal cubic surfaces*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

W. L. Edge
W. L. Edge
Affiliation:
Inveresk House, Musselburgh, EH217UA
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Synopsis

The cubic surfaces in, save for the elliptic cone, are, whatever their singularities, projections of del Pezzo's non-singular surface F, of order 9 in. It is explained how, merely by specifying the geometrical relation of the vertex of projection to F, each cubic surface is obtainable “at a stroke”, without using spaces of intermediate dimensions.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 83 , Issue 3-4 , 1979 , pp. 333 - 346
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1979

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