Ordinary Double Point
A Rational Double Point of Conic Double Point type, known as ``
.'' An ordinary Double Pointis called a Node. The above plot shows the curve 
, which has anordinary double point at the Origin.
A surface in complex 3-space admits at most finitely many ordinary double points. The maximum possible number ofordinary double points 
for a surface of degree 
, 2, ..., are 0, 1, 4, 16, 31, 65, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
,
... (Sloane's A046001; Chmutov 1992, Endraß 1995). The fact that 
was proved by Beauville (1980), and 
was proved by Jaffe and Ruberman (1994). For 
, the following inequalityholds:
(Endraß 1995). Examples of Algebraic Surfaces having the maximum (known) number ofordinary double points are given in the following table.
 | | Surface |
| 3 | 4 | Cayley Cubic |
| 4 | 16 | Kummer Surface |
| 5 | 31 | Dervish |
| 6 | 65 | Barth Sextic |
| 8 | 168 | Endraß Octic |
| 10 | 345 | Barth Decic |
References
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