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plane cubics and conic bundles
It is well known that any plane cubic curve can be obtained as the discriminant locus of a conic bundle (actually even just of a net of conics). Does this hold true also for all no …
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Parameter space for complete intersections and their discriminant
Consider globally complete intersections in $\mathbb{P}^n$, of codimension $k$, of some fixed multi-degree $(d_1,\dots,d_k)$.
Is there some nice (i.e. "explicit") parameter spac …
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Prime-like elements of rings
An element $p$ of a commutative ring $R$ is called "prime" if, for any $a,b\in R$, whenever $ab$ is a multiple of $p$, either $a$ or $b$ is a multiple of $p$.
Is there a word fo …

