Three-divisible families of skew lines on a smooth projective quintic

Rams, Sławomir

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-02-02979-3

Three-divisible families of skew lines on a smooth projective quintic
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Abstract:

We give an example of a family of 15 skew lines on a quintic such that its class is divisible by 3. We study properties of the codes given by arrangements of disjoint lines on quintics.

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