Standard monomials of the twisted cubic

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Modulo the three quadric relations of the twisted cubic, replace by , by , and by . Each replacement reduces the total exponent of . The resulting monomials are , , and . In degree their images under are all distinct monomials of degree . They are linearly independent, so the three quadrics generate the full homogeneous ideal, not merely its radical. The quotient is the third Veronese subring of .

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