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Cayley's surface revisited

Differential Geometry 2024-02-13 v1

Abstract

Cayley's (ruled cubic) surface carries a three-parameter family of twisted cubics. We describe the contact of higher order and the dual contact of higher order for these curves and show that there are three exceptional cases.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0225,
  title  = {Cayley's surface revisited},
  author = {Hans Havlicek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0225},
  year   = {2024}
}
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