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Plücker surface

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For the hypersurface parameterizing lines in 3-space, also sometimes called a Plücker surface, see Plücker coordinates.

In algebraic geometry, a Plücker surface, studied by Julius Plücker (1899), is a quartic surface in 3-dimensional projective space with a double line and 8 nodes.

Construction

For any quadric line complex, the lines of the complex in a plane envelop a quadric in the plane. A Plücker surface depends on the choice of a quadric line complex and a line, and consists of points of the quadrics associated to the planes through the chosen line.

References

  1. Hudson, R. W. H. T. (1990), Kummer's quartic surface, Cambridge Mathematical Library, Cambridge University Press, p. 68, ISBN 978-0-521-39790-2, MR 1097176
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