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The Hesse pencil of plane cubic curves

  • Michela Artebani

    Universidad de Concepción, Chile

  • Igor V. Dolgachev

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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Abstract

This is a survey of the classical geometry of the Hesse configuration of 12 lines in the projective plane with relation to the inflection points of a plane cubic curve. We also study two surfaces with Picard number 20 which arise naturally in connection with this configuration.

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Michela Artebani, Igor V. Dolgachev, The Hesse pencil of plane cubic curves. Enseign. Math. 55 (2009), no. 3/4, pp. 235–273

DOI 10.4171/LEM/55-3-3