Huh's polar-degree-two classification conjecture for projective hypersurfaces
Huh's polar-degree-two classification conjecture for projective hypersurfaces
Let be a projective hypersurface with only isolated singularities, defined by a homogeneous polynomial of degree , and let the polar degree of be . After a linear change of homogeneous coordinates, the listed possibilities are the following: a normal cubic surface containing a single line, with , , and ; a normal cubic surface containing two lines, with , , and ; a normal cubic surface containing three lines and three binodes, with , , and ; two smooth conics meeting at a single point and their common tangent, with , , and ; two smooth conics meeting at a single point, with , , and ; a smooth conic, a tangent, and a line passing through the tangency point, with , , and ; a smooth conic and two tangent lines, with , , and ; three concurrent lines and a line not meeting the center point, with , , and ; a cuspidal cubic and its tangent at the cusp, with , , and ; a cuspidal cubic and its tangent at the smooth flex point, with , , and ; a cuspidal cubic, with , , and ; or a smooth conic and a secant line, with , , and . Huh's conjecture. A projective hypersurface with only isolated singularities has polar degree if and only if it is one of these possibilities after a linear change of homogeneous coordinates. The paper proves this classification, so the conjecture is solved.
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Dirk Siersma, Joseph Steenbrink and Mihai Tibar, “On Huh's conjectures for the polar degree”, arXiv:1805.08175 (2019).
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