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Cubic curves and conics associated to the sphere \(S^4\)

Mircea Crasmareanu1
1Faculty of Mathematics, University “Al. I. Cuza”, 700506, Iasi, Romania
Copyright © Mircea Crasmareanu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This note introduces a \(1\)-parameter of cubic curves naturally associated to the sphere \(S^4\) considered in the unique \(5\)-dimensional irreducible representation space of \(SO(3)\). Eight examples are discussed with the last two being elliptic curves. Also, two conics are defined naturally in our setting by a special basis of the Lie algebra \(sl(3, \mathbb{R})\).

Keywords: the Euclidean spheres \(S^4\) and \(S^2\), cubic curve, cubic discriminant, conics