64 lines on smooth quartic surfaces
classification
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linesquarticsmoothothersurfacesboundcharacteristicderive
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Let k be a field of characteristic other than 2,3. We prove that there are no geometrically smooth quartic surfaces in IP^3 with more than 64 lines. As a key step, we derive the sharp bound that any line meets at most 20 other lines on a smooth quartic.
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