Canonical Forms of the Quaternary Cubic associated with arbitrary Quadrics
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§ 1. The general quaternary cubic
can be expressed in various interesting canonical forms involving suitably chosen linear forms Xi, Yi, Ai. Thus, referred to the pentahedron. X1X2X3X4X5 of Sylvester the cubic becomes the sum of five cubes
with its Hessian in the form
where the coefficients ai may if necessary be taken as equal to unity and the five linear forms Xi each contain four independent parameters, making a total of twenty parameters which is the number of coefficients aijk in the given cubic C3
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , May 1924 , pp. 92 - 100
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