Paper 2, Section II, H
Part II, 2013
Let be an irreducible quadric surface.
(i) Show that if is singular, then every nonsingular point lies in exactly one line in , and that all the lines meet in the singular point, which is unique.
(ii) Show that if is nonsingular then each point of lies on exactly two lines of .
Let be nonsingular, a point of , and a plane not containing . Show that the projection from to is a birational map . At what points does fail to be regular? At what points does fail to be regular? Justify your answers.