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A Plane Quartic with Eight Undulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

W. L. Edge
W. L. Edge
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Mathematical Institute, University of Edinburgh.
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1. The chief purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the existence of a plane quartic curve with eight undulations, an “undulation” being a point at which the tangent has four-point contact. It is shown that the curve

where (x, y, z) are homogeneous point-coordinates and f a constant, has undulations at the eight points

The curve has, in addition to these undulations, eight inflections which are; in general, distinct. But there are two geometrically different possibilities of their not being distinct, and in either instance they coincide in pairs at four further undulations. Thus two types of curve arise without any ordinary inflections at all, their 24 inflections coinciding in pairs at 12 undulations.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1950 , pp. 147 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1950

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