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Curves on Heisenberg invariant quartic surfaces in projective 3-space

Algebraic Geometry 2019-08-30 v3

Abstract

This paper is about the family of smooth quartic surfaces XP3X \subset \mathbb{P}^3 that are invariant under the Heisenberg group H2,2H_{2,2}. For a very general such surface XX, we show that the Picard number of XX is 16 and determine its Picard group. It turns out that the general Heisenberg invariant quartic contains 320 smooth conics and that in the very general case, this collection of conics generates the Picard group.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4058,
  title  = {Curves on Heisenberg invariant quartic surfaces in projective 3-space},
  author = {David Eklund},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4058},
  year   = {2019}
}

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