Quartic curves and their bitangents

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 712-733

  Plaumann, Daniel ^a   Sturmfels, Bernd ^a   Vinzant, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitangents; Determinantal representations; Gale duality; Plane curves; Semidefinite programming; Sums of squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952484873     PISSN: 07477171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsc.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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