Segre surface

In algebraic geometry, a Segre surface, studied by Corrado Segre (1884) and Beniamino Segre (1951), is an intersection of two quadrics in 4-dimensional projective space. They are rational surfaces isomorphic to a projective plane blown up in 5 points with no 3 on a line, and are del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4, and have 16 rational lines.

The term "Segre surface" is also occasionally used for various other surfaces, such as a quadric in 3-dimensional projective space (see Segre embedding), or the hypersurface

$x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}+x_{2}x_{3}x_{4}+x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}+x_{4}x_{5}x_{1}+x_{5}x_{1}x_{2}=0.\,$

References

• Segre, Corrado (1884), "Etude des différentes surfaces du 4^e ordre à conique double ou cuspidale (générale ou décomposée) considérées comme des projections de l'intersection de deux variétés quadratiques de l'espace à quatre dimensions", Mathematische Annalen, 24, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 313–444, doi:10.1007/BF01443412, ISSN 0025-5831
• Segre, Beniamino (1951), "On the inflexional curve of an algebraic surface in S₄", The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Second Series, 2 (1): 216–220, doi:10.1093/qmath/2.1.216, ISSN 0033-5606, MR 0044861