Conics in characteristic 2
This paper deals with surfaces with many lines. It is well-known that a cubic contains of them and that the maximal number for a quartic is . In higher degree the question remains open. Here we study classical and new constructions of surfaces with high number of lines. We obtain a symmetric octic with lines, and give examples of surfaces of degree containing a sequence of skew lines.
Nous démontrons un lemme permettant d’étudier l’irréductibilité et la lissité (hors des singularités prescrites) de la courbe plane générique de degré passant par points génériques avec des multiplicités fixées par avance. Ce lemme repose sur la “méthode d’Horace”, introduite par A. Hirschowitz. Il est appliqué ici à l’étude des courbes de genre inférieur ou égal à .
On montre que la réunion générale d’une courbe rationnelle avec des droites dans est de rang maximum.
In a previous paper we showed that the existence of a 1-parameter symmetry group of a hypersurface X in projective space was equivalent to failure of versality of a certain unfolding. Here we study in detail (reduced) plane curves of degree d ≥ 3, excluding the trivial case of cones. We enumerate all possible group actions -these have to be either semisimple or unipotent- for any degree d. A 2-parameter group can only occur if d = 3. Explicit lists of singularities of the corresponding curves are...