Reconstructing general plane quartics from their inflection lines

Pacini, Marco; Testa, Damiano

doi:10.1090/tran/7599

Reconstructing general plane quartics from their inflection lines
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Abstract:

Let $C$ be a general plane quartic. We show that if $D$ is any plane quartic with the same configuration of inflection lines as $C$, then the quartics $C$ and $D$ coincide.

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