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Fricke's octavic curve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

W. L. Edge
W. L. Edge
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Inveresk HouseMusselburghEH21 7UA
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The paper is concerned with a curve F, the complete intersection of a quadric with a quartic surface, that admits a group of self-projectivities isomorphic to the symmetric group of degree 5. Every generator of the quadric is, as shown at the end of the paper, cut by F equianharmonically. F has 80 stalls, points where its osculating plane is stationary; they are of two kinds, 60 to be labelled ∑, the other 20 Ω. F also has inflections at 24 points which compose a figure encountered on earlier occasions. A search is made for tritangent planes of F of which, when reckoned according to proper multiplicity, there must be 2048. Among them are 60 all of whose three contacts are ∑ while a further 120 each involve a single ∑ among their contacts and 420 each involve a single Ω.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1984 , pp. 91 - 101
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1984

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