At most 64 lines on smooth quartic surfaces (characteristic 2)
Algebraic Geometry
2019-11-13 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
Let K be a field of characteristic 2. We give a geometric proof that there are no smooth quartic surfaces in IP^3 with more than 64 lines (predating work of Degtyarev which improves this bound to 60). We also exhibit a smooth quartic containing 60 lines which thus attains the record in characteristic 2.
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@article{arxiv.1512.01358,
title = {At most 64 lines on smooth quartic surfaces (characteristic 2)},
author = {Slawomir Rams and Matthias Schütt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01358},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
16 pages; v2: minor additions and edits, reference to 1604.05836 added