Genus three curves and 56 nodal sextic surfaces

Bert van Geemen, Yan Zhao
2018 Journal of Algebraic Geometry  
Catanese and Tonoli showed that the maximal cardinality for an even set of nodes on a sextic surface is 56 and they constructed such nodal surfaces. In this paper we give an alternative, rather simple, construction for these surfaces starting from a non-hyperelliptic genus three curve. We illustrate our method by giving explicitly the equation of such a sextic surface starting from the Klein curve.
doi:10.1090/jag/694 fatcat:f2w73zfesbdkfi4y3b55uz6hry