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Geometry relevant to the binary quintic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

W. L. Edge
W. L. Edge
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The aim in this paper is to indicate one way of interpreting covariants of a binary quintic F geometrically, interpretations having been found recently [7] for its quadratic covariant 2C2, called Γ in [7], and its invariant I4. The symbol dCn will denote a covariant of order n in the binary variables x, y and degree d in the coefficients of F, Id being used in preference to dI0 for invariants. The sum d + n is 4 for both 2C2 and I4, and no other covariant affords as small a sum; so it is natural to have begun by interpreting these two and to use them as auxiliaries in interpreting others.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 311 - 321
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1987

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