On the polar degree of projective hypersurfaces (Q2909051)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6073818
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6073818 |
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On the polar degree of projective hypersurfaces (English)
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29 August 2012
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polar degree
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projective hypersurfaces
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homaloidal polynomial
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plane curves
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The authors give new, algebro-geometric proofs based on foliations for some formulas for the degree of the polar map of a projective hypersurface. In the case of plane curves, they extend results due to I. Dolgachev (for degree one) by listing all the curves with polar degree up to 3.
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