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Sketch of a verification of Schubert's number 5819539783680 of twisted cubics

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This sketch is fairly complete. The verification is completely reduced in Sects. 2–3 to proving 4 lemmas. Their proofs are sketched in Sects. 4–7, and the new ideas are emphasized. Also, the enumerative significance of the number is fully treated.

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Kleiman, S., Strømme, S.A., Xambó, S. (1981). Sketch of a verification of Schubert's number 5819539783680 of twisted cubics. In: Ghione, F., Peskine, C., Sernesi, E. (eds) Space Curves. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0078183

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