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Enriques Surface


An Enriques surface X is a smooth compact complex surface having irregularity q(X)=0 and nontrivial canonical sheaf K_X such that K_X^2=O_X (Endraß). Such surfaces cannot be embedded in projective three-space, but there nonetheless exist transformations onto singular surfaces in projective three-space. There exists a family of such transformed surfaces of degree six which passes through each edge of a tetrahedron twice. A subfamily with tetrahedral symmetry is given by the two-parameter (r,c) family of surfaces

 f_r=x_0x_1x_2x_3+c(x_0^2x_1^2x_2^2+x_0^2x_1^2x_3^2+x_0^2x_2^2x_3^2+x_1^2x_2^2x_3^2)=0

and the polynomial f_r is a sphere with radius r,

 f_r=(3-r)(x_0^2+x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2) 
 -2(1+r)(x_0x_1+x_0x_2+x_0x_3+x_1x_2+x_1x_3+x_2x_3)

(Endraß).


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Weisstein, Eric W. "Enriques Surface." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EnriquesSurface.html

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