Tangent Conics at Quartic Surfaces and Conics in Quartic Double Solids

For a quartic double solid we study the parameter space of conics (i.e. of smooth rational curves C ⊂ Z such that C · φ*O(1) = 2). This parameter space is naturally fibred (with disconnected fibres) over Pˇ³. We study the monodromy of the fibres and determine this way the irreducible components of the parameter space.     

Conjugated of Conics

We generalize metric properties of the circle and we use the fact that, using the Clifford’s concept of length [1], tangents to a conic having a center are equal and are the radius of a conic called conjugate.     

Constructions Using Conics

Conclusion  After recalling definitions and results about the constructibility of a geometric object, we have shown by more and more efficient methods how the works of Gauss, computer algebra systems (Maple), and dynamic geometry software (Cabri-Geometry, distributed by Texas Instruments) could be used together to construct regular polygons, using ruler, compass, and simple conics. In particular, we have given the list of small ₂-constructible polygons, and presented new ₂-constructions of the regular polygons with 19, 37, 73, and 97 sides. The ancient Greeks gave precedence to constructions using only ruler and compass, not because they did not know about the other curves (they invented a number of mechanical devices drawing some algebraic curves of degrees 2, 3, 4, and more), but for the neatness, perfection of reasoning, and the simplicity of the shapes involved (circle and straight line). Today’s tools such as Cabri-Geometry enlarge the notion of geometric simplicity by allowing the manipulation of algebraic expressions (the sequences defined by Gauss) and complex geometric objects (the conic sections). Some generalizations of the questions treated here may be considered:

Conics in Minkowski geometries

Euclidean geometry is the only Minkowski geometry in which either there is a centrally symmetric, or a quadratic conic, or there is a conical ellipsoid or hyperboloid.     

Conics in finite projective planes

There does not exist a general theory of conics in finite projective planes, because the many definitions of conics which are equivalent in desarguesian projective planes yield different types of conics in more general situations. Thus even the use of the word conic can lead to confusion, particularly in the finite case. This note is an attempt to clarify these various definitions and give as an example in a finite projective plane a von Staudt conic which is not an Ostrom conic. We conjecture that any finite projective plane admitting an Ostrom conic must be desarguesian.     

Conics in the Grothendieck ring

The subring of the Grothendieck ring of k-varieties generated by smooth conics is described, giving many zero divisors. The proof uses only elementary projective geometry.     

Lattice Points on Similar Figures and Conics

Let us say that a plane figure F satisfies Steinhaus’ condition if for any positive integer n, there exists a figure F _n similar to F which satisfies the condition |F_n?mathbb Z²|=n{|F_ncap{mathbb Z}^2|=n}. For example, the circular disc satisfies Steinhaus’ condition. We prove that every compact convex region in the plane mathbb R²{mathbb R^2} satisfies Steinhaus’ condition. As for plane curves, it is known that the circle satisfies Steinhaus’ condition. We consider Steinhaus’ condition for other conics, and present several results.     

On Rational Surfaces Ruled by Conics

Abstract

We study projective rational surfaces ruled by conics, describing their singularities and special fibres. In particular, if Sis smooth, we give a “canonical” procedure to determine a minimal model among the geometrically ruled surfaces birational to S.     

Lagrangian caps

We establish an h-principle for exact Lagrangian embeddings with concave Legendrian boundary. We prove, in particular, that in the complement of the unit ball B in the standard symplectic ${\mathbb{R}^{2n}, 2n \geq 6}$ R 2 n , 2 n ≥ 6 , there exists an embedded Lagrangian n-disc transversely attached to B along its Legendrian boundary, which is loose in the sense of Murphy (Loose Legendrian embeddings in high dimensional contact manifolds, arXiv:1201.2245, 2013).     

Price caps

Price-cap regulation of AT&T, which became effective on July 1, 1989, is an example of an idea that made its way from economic theory to institutional practice; in this case the process took about seven years. We describe both price-cap regulation and its predecessor — rate-of-return regulation — with particular regard to their incentive properties. We then give the assumptions and conclusions of a theoretical study (in fact a principal-agent model) that bears on the likely effectiveness of price-cap regulation. In the concluding section we describe some aspects of the progress of this idea from theory to practice, and draw tentative conclusions about the conditions that made it possible for this progress to be successfully completed.The views expressed here are the authors', and not necessarily those of AT&T Bell Laboratories.     

Binary codes and caps

The connection between maximal caps (sometimes called complete caps) and certain binary codes called quasi-perfect codes is described. We provide a geometric approach to the foundational work of Davydov and Tombak who have obtained the exact possible sizes of large maximal caps. A new self-contained proof of the existence and the structure of the largest maximal nonaffine cap in ℙG(n, 2) is given. Combinatorial and geometric consequences are briefly sketched. Some of these, such as the connection with families of symmetric-difference free subsets of a finite set will be developed elsewhere. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Combin Designs 6: 275–284, 1998     

Symmetric Sextics in the Real Projective Plane and Auxiliary Conics

In the present paper, the already-known list of the rigid isotopy classes of nonsingular curves of degree 6 in containing a symmetric curve is obtained in an elementary way. To prove that a curve in a given rigid isotopy class is not symmetric, we study the position of the curve with respect to auxiliary conics. Bibliography: 21 titles.     

Construction of caps by means of caps in complementary subspaces

A construction of caps is given which yields in particular caps with a free pair of points. Applying this construction, we meet the bound of Farr and Lisoněk [J. Farr, P. Lisoněk, Caps with free pairs of points, J. Geom. 85 (2006) 35-41] for caps with a free pair of points in , q even.     

On the Singularities of Surfaces Ruled by Conics

We classify the singularities of a surface ruled by conics: they are rational double points of type A _n or D _n . This is proved by showing that they arise from a precise series of blow-ups of a suitable surface geometrically ruled by conics. We determine also the family of such surfaces which are birational models of a given surface ruled by conics and obtained in a “minimal way” from it.     

Desargues Configurations via Polar Conics of Plane Cubics

Using polar conics of plane cubics we define a rational map from the moduli space of stable binary sextics into the moduli space of Desargues configurations. We show that this map is the inverse of a birational map defined via the von Staudt conic. In particular Ψ _m is a birational map.