Enriques Quintic, 4 Tacnodes (Craighero-Gattazzo (1:1) member)
Enriques Quintic, 4 Tacnodes (Craighero-Gattazzo (1:1) member) is an algebraic surface, defined by an implicit equation, immersed with singularities.
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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
- Fidelity
- exact
- Exactness
- elementary
Definition
One of Stagnaro's Enriques quintics: a degree-5 surface with 4 tacnodes, in a family whose parameters set the tacnode type (0, 1 or 2). THE SHIPPED ROW IS THE CRAIGHERO-GATTAZZO SECTION-3 PENCIL MEMBER (lambda : mu) = (1 : 1) -- the open-access completion of Stagnaro's program, same singular configuration, irreducible bicanonical adjoint -- NOT Stagnaro's own [St.1] surface, whose equation remains unpublished outside LNM 997. One typo in the source found by testing its claims: the text's fourth Dd-point P(1,0,0,1) must read (0,0,1,1); with that the four Dd-points, the cone tangencies and the rank-1 tacnodal Hessians all verify at machine precision (gated).
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 0).
- E. W. Weisstein, "Peano Surface", "Chair", "Crossed Trough", "Handkerchief Surface", "Hunt's Surface", "Kiss Surface", "Menn's Surface", "Miter Surface", "Nordstrand's Weird Surface", "Tooth Surface", MathWorld -- A Wolfram Web Resource, mathworld.wolfram.com.
- T. Nordstrand, "Weird Cube" and the tooth/pillow object, per the MathWorld pages (Nordstrand 1997).
- G. Peano's 1899 counterexample; cf. the MathWorld page's history of the criterion it defeated.
- O. Labs, 'Advent calendar 2002, No. 16', The Algebraic Surface Homepage, algebraicsurface.net (Wayback rescue, captures to 2017-10-01; local mirror: algsurf/book/.../ch034_no_16.md).
- E. Stagnaro's construction; descriptions and equations communicated to O. Labs by W. Barth, per the page.
- P. Craighero, R. Gattazzo, 'Quintic surfaces of P3 having a non singular model with q = pg = 0, P2 != 0', Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 91 (1994) 185-198 (acquired via NUMDAM, on disk).