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A real sextic surface with 45 handles

Algebraic Geometry 2014-12-16 v1

Abstract

It follows from classical restrictions on the topology of real algebraic varieties that the first Betti number of the real part of a real nonsingular sextic in CP3\mathbb{CP}^3 can not exceed 9494. We construct a real nonsingular sextic XX in CP3\mathbb{CP}^3 satisfying b1(RX)=90b_1(\mathbb{R}X)=90, improving a result of F.Bihan. The construction uses Viro's patchworking and an equivariant version of a deformation due to E.Horikawa.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1412.4212,
  title  = {A real sextic surface with 45 handles},
  author = {Arthur Renaudineau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4212},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages, 13 figures

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