Galois Lines for Normal Elliptic Space Curves

摘要

Let C be a curve, and l and lO be lines in the projective three space P3.Consider a projection πl: P3... → lO with center l, where l ∩ lO = 0. Restricting πl to C,we obtain a morphism πl |C: C → lO and an extension of fields (πl|C)*: k(lO) → k(C). If this extension is Galois, then l is said to be a Galois line. We study the defining equations,automorphisms and the Galois lines for quartic curves, and give some applications to the theory ofplane quartic curves.