Eight-point cubic completion for two triples of lines

ID: eight-point-cubic-completion-for-two-triples-of-lines

Let two triples of projective lines meet in nine distinct points. Any plane cubic containing eight contains all nine. To prove this, write the triples as and , with the missing point on . The candidate cubic agrees with a scalar multiple of on , so . Its three known zeros on force . Two remaining known zeros on force the linear factor to be a multiple of . Hence and vanishes at the missing point.

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