The Hessian Discriminant

This page contains supplementary code to the following paper:

Rodica Dinu and Tim Seynnaeve: The Hessian discriminant

In: Le Matematiche, 75 (2020) 2, p. 595-610

MIS-Preprint: 88/2019 DOI: 10.4418/2020.75.2.12 ARXIV: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06681 CODE: https://mathrepo.mis.mpg.de/HessianDiscriminant

All code is in \(\verb|Macaulay2|\).

• Sections 1 and 2
  • 1.4. Computational methods
  • 2.1. Sylvester’s pentahedral form
  • 2.2 Rank six cubics
  • 2.3 General singular cubics
• Section 3
  • 3.1. Computing invariants for cubics of higher rank

Project contributors: Rodica Dinu and Tim Seynnaeve

Software used: Macaulay2