Galois points on quartic surfaces
Galois points on quartic surfaces
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四次曲面上的伽罗瓦点
DOI:
10.2969/jmsj/05330731
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发表时间:
2001
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0.7
通讯作者:
Hisao Yoshihara
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作者:
Hisao Yoshihara
Let ,S be a smooth hypersurface in the projective three space and consider a projection of S from P e S to a plane f/. This projection induces an extension of fields k(S)/k(H). The point P is called a Galois point if the extension is Galois. We study structures of quartic surfaces focusing on Galois points. We will show that the number of the Galois points is zero, one, two, four or eight and the existence of some rule of distribution of the Galois points. l. Introduction. Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. 'We fix it as the ground field of our discussion. Let S be a smooth hypersurface of degree d in the projective three space P3 : Pt (k), where we assume that d > 4. Let K k(^g) be the rational function field of S. A subfield K^ is said to be a maximal rational subfield if it is rational, i.€., a purely transcendental extension of k, and is not contained in any other rational subfield. It seems interesting to study the structure of the extension Kf K^. If we know it, we will be able to classify of all the subfields of K. Because, by Zariski-Castelnuovo's theorem any subfield (which is not k) of K. is rational. So that it is sufficient to study what fields exist between K and K^. Let L be the Galois closure of K f K*, then we need to study the structure of the Galois group Gal(L I K^). For that reason, the study we have to do first is to find when the extension is Galois (cf. t6]). Here the meaning "when" is a little ambiguous, it will become clear if we consider the model of 4 as follows. For each point P e ,S, let ftp: 5... -> H be a proje:tion of S from P to a plane H. This rational map induces the extension of fields K lk(H). We know that the degree of irrationality of Sis d-1 or d-2(cf. [1], [0]), hence k(H) is a maximal rational subfield. Clearly the structure of this extension does not depend on I/, but on 4, so that we writ e Kp instead of k(H). Therefore, the above question is equivalent to say for which point P e S the extension K lKp becomes Galois. The study following the above method has been done for curves of degrees 4 and 5 (cf. [6], t7l). 20A0 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 14J70; Secondary 14127, 14J28.