Septic with 16 Triple Points
Septic with 16 Triple Points is an algebraic surface, defined by an implicit equation, immersed with singularities, with Td symmetry (a point group).
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algebraic aperiodic def-implicit implemented singular tradition-classical
Formula
Properties
- Family
- algebraic
- Given by
- an implicit equation
- Curvature
- no condition imposed
- Periodicity
- not periodic
- Ends
- 0
- Embedding
- immersed with singularities
- Symmetry
- Td
- Symmetry kind
- point group
- Fidelity
- exact
- Exactness
- elementary
Definition
A one-parameter family of S_4-symmetric septics; the general element carries sixteen ordinary triple points. Imposing the symmetry is what reduces the problem enough to solve (paper, Theorem 5.1).
Sources
Closed form reproduced numerically against the shipped implementation (math_art/surfaces/algebraic.py) over 240 sample points: matches oracle x 1 over 240 points (worst 1.14e-13).
- S. Endrass, U. Persson and J. Stevens, 'Surfaces with triple points', arXiv:math/0010163v1 [math.AG] (2000), section 5 and Theorem 5.1 -- 'A septic with 16 ordinary triple points'.