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Cubic Surfaces Jaap Top - Wiskunde

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S defines a (smooth) cubic surface.<br />

It was first studied by Alfred Clebsch:<br />

Mathematische Annalen Vol. 4 (1871), see page 331.<br />

Let P := (1 : ζ 1 : ζ 2 : ζ 3 : ζ 4 ) ∈ S and ¯P := (1 : ζ 4 1 : ζ4 2 : ζ4 3 : ζ4 4 ) ∈<br />

S, in which the ζ j are the four different primitive 5th roots of<br />

unity (in F 16 ).<br />

The line containing P and ¯P is contained in S. Permuting the<br />

primitive roots of 1 gives 12 such lines in S (in fact, two sets of<br />

6 pairwise disjoint lines).<br />

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