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The variety of flexes of plane cubics

Algebraic Geometry 2025-10-14 v5

Abstract

Let XX be the variety of flexes of plane cubics. We prove that (1) XX is an irreducible rational algebraic variety endowed with a faithful algebraic action of PSL3{\rm PSL}_3; (2) XX is PSL3{\rm PSL}_3-equivariantly birationally isomorphic to a homogeneous fiber space over PSL3/K{\rm PSL}_3/K with fiber P1\mathbb P^1 for some subgroup KK isomorphic to the binary tetrahedral group SL2(F3){\rm SL}_2(\mathbb F_3).

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@article{arxiv.2408.16488,
  title  = {The variety of flexes of plane cubics},
  author = {Vladimir L. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16488},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages. Added a remark to statement (H_3) of Lemma 6 (footnote on p. 14). To appear in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, vol. 329 (2025)