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Discriminants of cubic curves and determinantal representations

2020/09/14 by Manh Hung Tran, Tran, Manh Hung
Mathematics · #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #advanced mathematical theories #Functional Equations Stability Results

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.06718

Abstract

The discriminant of a smooth plane cubic curve over the complex numbers can be written as a product of theta functions. This provides an important connection between algebraic and analytic objects. In this paper, we perform a new approach to obtain this classical result by using determinantal representations. More precisely, one can represent a non-singular cubic form as the determinant of a matrix whose elements are linear forms. Theta functions naturally appear in this representation and thus in the discriminant of the cubic.

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