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Covariants of pencils of binary cubics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

P. E. Newstead
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Liverpool

Synopsis

The invariants of pencils of binary cubics were described in an earlier paper by the author. In this note, we give a complete set of covariants for such pencils, and show how each type of pencil may be denned by the identical vanishing of covariants.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1982

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