Wiman's sextic

In mathematics, Wiman's sextic is a degree 6 plane curve with four nodes studied by Anders Wiman (1896). It is given by the equation (in homogeneous coordinates)

x^{6}+y^{6}+z^{6}+(x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2})(x^{4}+y^{4}+z^{4})=12x^{2}y^{2}z^{2}

References

Inoue, Naoki; Kato, Fumiharu (2005), "On the geometry of Wiman's sextic", Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University, 45 (4): 743–757, ISSN 0023-608X, MR 2226628
Wiman, A. (1896), "Zur Theorie der endlichen Gruppen von birationalen Transformationen in der Ebene", Mathematische Annalen, 48: 195–240, doi:10.1007/BF01446342

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