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Babbage's conjecture, contact of surfaces, symmetric determinantal varieties and applications

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A great part of this research was performed during the author's stay at Harvard University in the year 1977–78, partially supported by a N.A.T.O.-C.N.R. fellowship. The author is a member of G.N.S.A.G.A. of C.N.R.

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Catanese, F. Babbage's conjecture, contact of surfaces, symmetric determinantal varieties and applications. Invent Math 63, 433–465 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01389064

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