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A tale of two surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2013-03-18 v2

Abstract

We point out a link between two surfaces which have appeared recently in the literature: the surface of cuboids and the Schoen surface. Both surfaces give rise to a surface with q=4, whose canonical map is 2-to-1 onto an intersection of 4 quadrics in P^6 with 48 nodes.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1910,
  title  = {A tale of two surfaces},
  author = {Arnaud Beauville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1910},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

The first part has been completely rewritten. We show that the surface of cuboids belongs to a 6-dimensional family of intersection of 4 quadrics in P^6 with 48 nodes

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