Jerusalem Mathematics Colloquium




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Thursday, 27th June 2002, 4:00 pm
Mathematics Building, Lecture Hall 2




Dr. David Lehavi
(Hebrew University)

Any smooth plane quartic can be reconstructed from its bitangents


Abstract: Any smooth plane quartic can be reconstructed from its bitangents. It is known since ancient times (the 1860's) that any smooth plane quartic has exactly 28 bitangents. A long standing question from that era is: "given only the set of 28 bitangents to a smooth plane quartic, can one reconstruct the quartic?". We use an isomorphism of two moduli problems, and the recent classification of 2-transitive groups, to give an affirmative answer to this question.




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