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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
The most important application of the rational point transformations between two spaces lies in the construction of algebraical surfaces possessing singularities of various kinds and the investigation of their properties.
When a plane is transformed by such a transformation into a rational algebraical surface (homaloid) the geometry of the surface is immediately derivable from the geometry of the plane.
* Math. Ann., Bd. I. and II.
* A direct determination is given in §22.
* Noether (Math. Ann., Bd. III., p. 223), and Cayley (Crelle, Bd. 63). For a simple analytical proof see Proc. L. M. S., III., p. 14.
* There is a reduction of pn − 1 to be made from the number derived from the formula of §7. This arises from the presence of a degenerate curve in the pencil.