Homogeneous quasi-translations in dimension 5
Abstract
We give a proof in modern language of the following result by Paul Gordan and Max N\"other: a homogeneous quasi-translation in dimension without linear invariants would be linearly conjugate to another such quasi-translation , for which is algebraically independent over of . Just like Gordan and N\"other, we apply this result to classify all homogeneous polynomials in indeterminates from which the Hessian determinant is zero. Others claim to have reproved 'the result of Gordan and N\"other in ' as well, but some of them assume that is irreducible, which Gordan and N\"other did not. Furthermore, they do not use the above result about homogeneous quasi-translations in dimension for their classifications. (There is however one paper which could use this result very well, to fix a gap caused by an error.) We derive some other properties which would have. One of them is that , for which we give a proof which is less computational than another proof of it by Dayan Liu. Furthermore, we show that the Zariski closure of the image of would be an irreducible component of , and prove that every other irreducible component of would be a -dimensional linear subspace of which contains the fifth standard basis unit vector.
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@article{arxiv.1501.04845,
title = {Homogeneous quasi-translations in dimension 5},
author = {Michiel de Bondt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04845},
year = {2017}
}
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34 pages