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Fermat Cubic
Fermat Cubic
Fermat Cubic
In geometry, the Fermat cubic, named after Pierre de Fermat, is a surface dened by
The 27 lines lying on the Fermat cubic are easy to describe explicitly: they are the 9 lines of the form (w: aw: y: by) where a and b are xed numbers
with cube 1, and their 18 conjugates under permutations of coordinates.
References
Ness, Linda (1978), "Curvature on the Fermat cubic", Duke Mathematical Journal 45 (4): 797807, doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-78-04537-4,
ISSN0012-7094, MR518106
Elkies, Noam. "Complete cubic parameterization of the Fermat cubic surface".