In mathematics, the Labs septic surface is a degree-7 (septic) nodal surface with 99 nodes found by Labs (2006). As of 2015, it has the largest known number of nodes of a degree-7 surface, though this number is still less than the best known upper bound of 104 nodes given by Varchenko (1983).[1]
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edit- ^ The upper bound in degree 7 given by Giventalʹ (1983) is 106.
- Giventalʹ, A. B. (1983), "The maximum number of singular points on a projective hypersurface", Funktsionalʹnyĭ Analiz i ego Prilozheniya, 17 (3): 73–74, MR 0714227
- Labs, Oliver (2006), "A septic with 99 real nodes", Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova, 116: 299–313, arXiv:math/0409348, Bibcode:2004math......9348L, MR 2287352
- Varchenko, A. N. (1983), "Semicontinuity of the spectrum and an upper bound for the number of singular points of the projective hypersurface", Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 270 (6): 1294–1297, MR 0712934
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edit- Bothmer, video of Labs septic
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