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Unexpected properties of the Klein configuration of $60$ points in ${\mathbb P}^3$

Algebraic Geometry 2024-07-09 v2 Commutative Algebra Combinatorics

Abstract

Felix Klein in course of his study of the regular icosahedron and its symmetries encountered a highly symmetric configuration of 6060 points in P3{\mathbb P}^3. This configuration has appeared in various guises, perhaps post notably as the configuration of points dual to the 6060 reflection planes in the group G31G_{31} in the Shephard-Todd list. In the present note we show that the 6060 points exhibit interesting properties relevant from the point of view of two paths of research initiated recently. Firstly, they give rise to two completely different unexpected surfaces of degree 66. Unexpected hypersurfaces have been introduced by Cook II, Harbourne, Migliore, Nagel in 2018. One of unexpected surfaces associated to the configuration of 6060 points is a cone with a single singularity of multiplicity 66 and the other has three singular points of multiplicities 4,24,2 and 22. Secondly, Chiantini and Migliore observed in 2020 that there are non-trivial sets of points in P3{\mathbb P}^3 with the surprising property that their general projection to P2{\mathbb P}^2 is a complete intersection. They found a family of such sets, which they called grids. An appendix to their paper describes an exotic configuration of 2424 points in P3{\mathbb P}^3 which is not a grid but has the remarkable property that its general projection is a complete intersection. We show that the Klein configuration is also not a grid and it projects to a complete intersections. We identify also its proper subsets, which enjoy the same property. \

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@article{arxiv.2010.08863,
  title  = {Unexpected properties of the Klein configuration of $60$ points in ${\mathbb P}^3$},
  author = {Piotr Pokora and Tomasz Szemberg and Justyna Szpond},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08863},
  year   = {2024}
}

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final version, to appear in Michigan. Math. J. Oberwolfach Preprints;2020,19 OWP-2020-19