Cubic form

In mathematics, a cubic form is a homogeneous polynomial of degree 3, and a cubic hypersurface is the zero set of a cubic form.

In (Delone & Faddeev 1964), Boris Delone and Dmitriĭ Faddeev showed that binary cubic forms with integer coefficients can be used to parametrize orders in cubic fields. Their work was generalized in (Gan, Gross & Savin 2002, §4) to include all cubic rings,^[1]^[2] giving a discriminant-preserving bijection between orbits of a GL(2, Z)-action on the space of integral binary cubic forms and cubic rings up to isomorphism.

The classification of real cubic forms $a x^3 + 3 b x^2 y + 3 c x y^2 + d y^3$ is linked to the classification of umbilical points of surfaces. The equivalence classes of such cubics form a three-dimensional real projective space and the subset of parabolic forms define a surface – the umbilic torus or umbilic bracelet.^[3]

Examples

Notes

↑ A cubic ring is a ring that is isomorphic to Z³ as a Z-module.
↑ In fact, Pierre Deligne pointed out that the correspondence works over an arbitrary scheme.
↑ Porteous, Ian R. (2001), Geometric Differentiation, For the Intelligence of Curves and Surfaces (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 350, ISBN 978-0-521-00264-6

References

Delone, Boris; Faddeev, Dmitriĭ (1964) [1940, Translated from the Russian by Emma Lehmer and Sue Ann Walker], The theory of irrationalities of the third degree, Translations of Mathematical Monographs 10, American Mathematical Society, MR 0160744
Gan, Wee-Teck; Gross, Benedict; Savin, Gordan (2002), "Fourier coefficients of modular forms on G₂", Duke Mathematical Journal 115 (1): 105–169, doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-02-11514-2, MR 1932327
Iskovskikh, V.A.; Popov, V.L. (2001), "Cubic form", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
Iskovskikh, V.A.; Popov, V.L. (2001), "Cubic hypersurface", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
Manin, Yuri Ivanovich (1986) [1972], Cubic forms, North-Holland Mathematical Library 4 (2nd ed.), Amsterdam: North-Holland, ISBN 978-0-444-87823-6, MR 833513

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, December 12, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.