# Difference between revisions of "Kummer Quartic"

Kummer Quartic
Field: Algebra
Image Created By: 3DXM Consortium
Website: Virtual Math Museum

Kummer Quartic

A Kummer surface is any one of a one parameter family of algebraic surfaces defined by a specific polynomial equation of degree four.

# A More Mathematical Explanation

The polynomial equation of degree four that describes a Kummer surfaces is: Failed to parse (Missing <code>texvc</code> executable. Please see math/README to configure.): (x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - aa^2)^2 - \lambda\*p*q*r*s = 0, where

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The polynomial equation of degree four that describes a Kummer surfaces is: Failed to parse (Missing <code>texvc</code> executable. Please see math/README to configure.): (x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - aa^2)^2 - \lambda\*p*q*r*s = 0, where $aa$ is any real number, $\lambda\ = (3*aa^2 - 1.0)/(3 - aa^2)$, $2$ , $2$ , $2$ , $2$ .

The family was described originally by Ernst Eduard Kummer in 1864.

A Kummer surface has sixteen double points, the maximum possible for a surface of degree four in three-dimensional space. For the default case $aa$ = 1.3, all these double points are real and they appear in the visualization as the vertices of five tetrahedra.

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