The dimension-seven conjecture for tritangents of space sextics

Let CC be a smooth space sextic contained in a singular quadric. Let α=θθ0J(C)[2]\{0}\alpha=\theta-\theta_0\in \mathrm{J}(C)[2]\backslash\{0\}, where θ\theta is one of the 120120 odd theta characteristics and θ0\theta_0 is the vanishing even theta characteristic. The space WC,αW_{C,\alpha} is the associated space appearing in the tritangent construction.

Dimension-seven conjecture.

dimWC,α=7.\dim W_{C,\alpha}=7.

The conjecture is motivated by the paper's computation showing this dimension for an example and by the observation that it occurs for every α\alpha arising from one of the 120120 odd theta characteristics in that example. Its general validity for smooth space sextics contained in singular quadrics is not established in the supplied text.

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Turku Ozlum Celik, Avinash Kulkarni, Yue Ren and Mahsa Sayyary Namin, “Tritangents and Their Space Sextics”, arXiv:1805.11702 (2018).

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