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Planar threefolds in space of four dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. G. Welchman
W. G. Welchman
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Sidney Sussex College
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1. It is known that, in [3], a ruled surface of order n and genus p has in general a double curve of order ½ (n − 1) (n − 2) − p and genus ½ (n − 5) (n + 2p − 2) + 1, 2(n + 2p − 2) torsal generators, 2(n − 2)(n − 3) − 2(n − 6)p generators which touch the double curve, and triple points.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1933 , pp. 103 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1933

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References

* See, for instance, Edge, , Ruled Surfaces, 28–31.Google Scholar

* Roth, L., Proc. London Math. Soc. (2), 33 (1932), 115–144.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

† See Edge, loc. cit.

* For a complete discussion of tangent spaces of manifolds generated by spaces see Segre, , Rend. Palermo, 30 (1910), 87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

† See, for instance, Segre, , Encykl. Math. Wiss., iii c 7, 913Google Scholar. See also § 8.

‡ Rend. Palermo, 3 (1889), 27Google Scholar. See also § 9.

§ For the results dual to these see Todd, , Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (2), 30 (1930), 513–550 (530).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

* This shows again that each plane of meets Γ in points.

* See, for instance, Seven, , Geometria algebrica, i, 1, Bologna (1926), 228.Google Scholar

† I.e. if the fourfold point is not a torsal point or a point of contact of a tangent plane.

* See § 3.

† A focus of order λ is a point of intersection of λ + 1 consecutive generating spaces.

* For a complete discussion see Edge, Ruled Surfaces, p. 36. Non-rational ruled surfaces are discussed by Segre, , Math. Ann. 34 (1889), 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

* These results are proved by Segre, , Atti Acc. Torino, 21 (1885), 95Google Scholar. Non-rational manifolds generated by ∞1 planes are discussed by Pagliano, , Annali di Mat. (3), 5 (1901), 77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

† This is the well-known of [5] generated by the planes which meet four lines.

* See Segre, loc. cit.