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Title: Classification of Frobenius Forms in Five Variables
Cubic surfaces in characteristic two are investigated from the point of view of prime characteristic commutative algebra. In particular, we prove that the non-Frobenius split cubic surfaces form a linear subspace of codimension four in the 19-dimensional space of all cubics, and that up to projective equivalence, there are finitely many non-Frobenius split cubic surfaces. We explicitly describe defining equations for each and characterize them as extremal in terms of configurations of lines on them. In particular, a (possibly singular) cubic surface in characteristic two fails to be Frobenius split if and only if no three lines on it form a “triangle”.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1945611
NSF-PAR ID:
10326299
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Miller, Claudia; Striuli, Janet; Witt, Emily E.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Women in Commutative Algebra: Proceedings of the 2019 WICA Workshop
Volume:
29
Page Range / eLocation ID:
353-367
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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