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Ranestad, Kristian; Sturmfels, Bernd

Twenty-seven questions about the cubic surface. (English) Zbl 1454.14104

Matematiche 75, No. 2, 411-424 (2020).
Summary: We present a collection of research questions on cubic surfaces in 3-space. These questions inspired the present collection of papers. This article serves as the introduction to the issue. The number of questions is meant to match the number of lines on a cubic surface. We end with a list of problems that are open.

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14J26 Rational and ruled surfaces
14Q10 Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces

Software:

HomotopyContinuation; DetRepOfCubicDiscriminant.m2; CubicSurfaces
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\textit{K. Ranestad} and \textit{B. Sturmfels}, Matematiche 75, No. 2, 411--424 (2020; Zbl 1454.14104)
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