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surface -- get the special surface contained in the fourfold

Synopsis

Description

i1 : X = specialFourfold "quintic del Pezzo surface";

o1 : ProjectiveVariety, GM fourfold containing a surface of degree 5 and sectional genus 1
i2 : V = ambientFivefold X;

o2 : ProjectiveVariety, 5-dimensional subvariety of PP^8
i3 : S = surface X;

o3 : ProjectiveVariety, surface in PP^8 (subvariety of codimension 3 in V)
i4 : assert isSubset(S,X)

See also

Ways to use surface :

For the programmer

The object surface is a method function.