Nodal surface

In algebraic geometry, a nodal surface is a surface in (usually complex) projective space whose only singularities are nodes. A major problem about them is to find the maximum number of nodes of a nodal surface of given degree.

The following table gives some known upper and lower bounds for the maximal number of nodes on a complex surface of given degree.

DegreeLower boundSurface achieving lower boundUpper bound
10Plane0
21Conical surface1
34Cayley's nodal cubic surface4
416Kummer surface16
531Togliatti surface31 (Beauville)
665Barth sextic65 (Jaffe and Ruberman)
799Labs septic104
8168Endraß surface174
9226Labs246
10345Barth decic360
11425480
12600Sarti surface645
d(1/12)d(d  1)(5d  9)(Chmutov 1992)(4/9)d(d  1)2 (Miyaoka 1984)

See also

References

  • Chmutov, S. V. (1992), "Examples of projective surfaces with many singularities.", J. Algebraic Geom., 1 (2): 191–196, MR 1144435
  • Miyaoka, Yoichi (1984), "The maximal Number of Quotient Singularities on Surfaces with Given Numerical Invariants", Mathematische Annalen, 268 (2): 159–171, doi:10.1007/bf01456083
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