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.
References
Primary source
Dirk Siersma, Joseph Steenbrink and Mihai Tibar, “On Huh's conjectures for the polar degree”, arXiv:1805.08175 (2019).
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