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Families of curves in $P^{3}$ and Zeuthen’s problem

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Robin Hartshorne

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1997; Volume 130, Number 617
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0648-7 (print); 978-1-4704-0206-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0617
MathSciNet review: 1401493
MSC: Primary 14H50; Secondary 14C20

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Families of quadric surfaces
  • 3. Degenerations of cubic surfaces
  • 4. Standard form for certain deformations
  • 5. Local Picard group of some normal hypersurface singularities
  • 6. Solution of Zeuthen’s problem