Igusa quartic

In algebraic geometry, the Igusa quartic (also called the Castelnuovo–Richmond quartic CR₄ or the Castelnuovo–Richmond–Igusa quartic) is a quartic hypersurface in 4-dimensional projective space, studied by Igusa (1962). It is closely related to the moduli space of genus 2 curves with level 2 structure. It is the dual of the Segre cubic.

It can be given as a codimension 2 variety in P⁵ by the equations

\sum x_{i}=0

{\big (}\sum x_{i}^{2}{\big )}^{2}=4\sum x_{i}^{4}

References

Dolgachev, Igor V. (2012), Classical Algebraic Geometry: a modern view (PDF), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-01765-8
Hunt, Bruce (1996), The geometry of some special arithmetic quotients, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1637, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-61795-2, MR 1438547, doi:10.1007/BFb0094399
Igusa, Jun-ichi (1962), "On Siegel Modular Forms of Genus Two", American Journal of Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 84 (1): 175–200, ISSN 0002-9327, JSTOR 2372812, doi:10.2307/2372812

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