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Tetrahedroid
In algebraic geometry, a tetrahedroid (or tétraédroïde) is a special kind of Kummer surface In algebraic geometry, a Kummer quartic surface, first studied by , is an irreducible nodal surface of degree 4 in \mathbb^3 with the maximal possible number of 16 double points. Any such surface is the Kummer variety of the Jacobian varie ... studied by , with the property that the intersections with the faces of a fixed tetrahedron are given by two conics intersecting in four nodes. Tetrahedroids generalize Fresnel's wave surface. References * * Algebraic surfaces Complex surfaces {{algebraic-geometry-stub ...
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Tetrahedroid
In algebraic geometry, a tetrahedroid (or tétraédroïde) is a special kind of Kummer surface In algebraic geometry, a Kummer quartic surface, first studied by , is an irreducible nodal surface of degree 4 in \mathbb^3 with the maximal possible number of 16 double points. Any such surface is the Kummer variety of the Jacobian varie ... studied by , with the property that the intersections with the faces of a fixed tetrahedron are given by two conics intersecting in four nodes. Tetrahedroids generalize Fresnel's wave surface. References * * Algebraic surfaces Complex surfaces {{algebraic-geometry-stub ...
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Kummer Surface
In algebraic geometry, a Kummer quartic surface, first studied by , is an irreducible nodal surface of degree 4 in \mathbb^3 with the maximal possible number of 16 double points. Any such surface is the Kummer variety of the Jacobian variety of a smooth hyperelliptic curve of genus 2; i.e. a quotient of the Jacobian by the Kummer involution ''x'' â†¦ −''x''. The Kummer involution has 16 fixed points: the 16 2-torsion point of the Jacobian, and they are the 16 singular points of the quartic surface. Resolving the 16 double points of the quotient of a (possibly nonalgebraic) torus by the Kummer involution gives a K3 surface with 16 disjoint rational curves; these K3 surfaces are also sometimes called Kummer surfaces. Other surfaces closely related to Kummer surfaces include Weddle surfaces, wave surfaces, and tetrahedroids. Geometry of the Kummer surface Singular quartic surfaces and the double plane model Let K\subset\mathbb^3 be a quartic surface with an ...
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Wave Surface
In mathematics, Fresnel's wave surface, found by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822, is a quartic surface describing the propagation of light in an optically biaxial crystal. Wave surfaces are special cases of tetrahedroids which are in turn special cases of Kummer surface In algebraic geometry, a Kummer quartic surface, first studied by , is an irreducible nodal surface of degree 4 in \mathbb^3 with the maximal possible number of 16 double points. Any such surface is the Kummer variety of the Jacobian varie ...s. In projective coordinates (''w'':''x'':''y'':''z'') the wave surface is given by : \frac + \frac + \frac =0 References * * * Fresnel, A. (1822), "Second supplément au mémoire sur la double réfraction" (signed 31 March 1822, submitted 1 April 1822), in H. de Sénarmont, É. Verdet, and L. Fresnel (eds.), ''Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel'', Paris: Imprimerie Impériale (3 vols., 1866–70)vol.2 (1868) pp.369†...
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. Most are nonprofit organizations and an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by schola ... in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambridge University Press is a department of the University of Cambridge and is both an academic and educational publisher. It became part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, following a merger with Cambridge Assessment in 2021. With a global sales presence, publishing hubs, and offices in more than 40 Country, countries, it publishes over 50,000 titles by authors from over 100 countries. Its publishing includes more than 380 academic journals, monographs, reference works, school and uni ...
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Algebraic Surfaces
In mathematics, an algebraic surface is an algebraic variety of dimension two. In the case of geometry over the field of complex numbers, an algebraic surface has complex dimension two (as a complex manifold, when it is non-singular) and so of dimension four as a smooth manifold. The theory of algebraic surfaces is much more complicated than that of algebraic curves (including the compact Riemann surfaces, which are genuine surfaces of (real) dimension two). Many results were obtained, however, in the Italian school of algebraic geometry, and are up to 100 years old. Classification by the Kodaira dimension In the case of dimension one varieties are classified by only the topological genus, but dimension two, the difference between the arithmetic genus p_a and the geometric genus p_g turns to be important because we cannot distinguish birationally only the topological genus. Then we introduce the irregularity for the classification of them. A summary of the results (in det ...
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