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2009 Symbolic computation of degree-three covariants for a binary form
Thomas Hagedorn, Glen Wilson
Involve 2(5): 511-532 (2009). DOI: 10.2140/involve.2009.2.511

Abstract

We use elementary linear algebra to explicitly calculate a basis for, and the dimension of, the space of degree-three covariants for a binary form of arbitrary degree. We also give an explicit basis for the subspace of covariants complementary to the space of degree-three reducible covariants.

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Thomas Hagedorn. Glen Wilson. "Symbolic computation of degree-three covariants for a binary form." Involve 2 (5) 511 - 532, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2009.2.511

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Received: 16 October 2008; Revised: 8 December 2009; Accepted: 21 December 2009; Published: 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1200.13011
MathSciNet: MR2601574
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/involve.2009.2.511

Subjects:
Primary: 13A50 , 15A72 , 16W22

Keywords: binary forms , invariant theory , symbolic method , theory of covariants

Rights: Copyright © 2009 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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