An arithmetic count of osculating lines
Algebraic Geometry
2025-02-07 v2
Abstract
We say that a line in is osculating to a hypersurface if they meet with contact order . When , it is known that through a fixed point of , there are exactly of such lines. Under some parity condition on and , we define a quadratically enriched count of these lines over any perfect field . The count takes values in the Grothendieck--Witt ring of quadratic forms over and depends linearly on .
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@article{arxiv.2312.12129,
title = {An arithmetic count of osculating lines},
author = {Giosuè Muratore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12129},
year = {2025}
}
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21 pages, nyjm.albany.edu/j/2024/30-72.html