Cubic surfaces of characteristic two

Zhibek Kadyrsizova, Jennifer Kenkel, Janet Page, Jyoti Singh, Karen E. Smith, Adela Vraciu, Emily E. Witt

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Abstract

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".

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6251-6267
Number of pages17
JournalTransactions of the American Mathematical Society
Volume374
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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