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In mathematical [[invariant theory]], an '''invariant of a binary form''' is a polynomial in the coefficients of a [[binary form]] in two variables ''x'' and ''y'' that remains invariant under the [[special linear group]] acting on the variables ''x'' and ''y''.
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==Terminology==
 
{{main|Glossary of invariant theory}}
A binary form (of degree ''n'') is a homogeneous polynomial &Sigma;{{su|b=''i''=0|p=''n''}} ({{su|p=''n''|b=''i''}})''a''<sub>''n''&minus;''i''</sub>''x''<sup>''n''&minus;''i''</sup>''y''<sup>''i''</sup> = ''a''<sub>''n''</sub>''x''<sup>''n''</sup> + ({{su|p=''n''|b=1}})''a''<sub>''n''&minus;1</sub>''x''<sup>''n''&minus;1</sup>''y'' + ... + ''a''<sub>0</sub>''y''<sup>''n''</sup>.  The group ''SL''<sub>2</sub>('''C''') acts on these forms by taking ''x'' to ''ax''&nbsp;+&nbsp;''by'' and ''y'' to ''cx''&nbsp;+&nbsp;''dy''. This induces an action on the space spanned by ''a''<sub>0</sub>, ..., ''a''<sub>''n''</sub> and on the polynomials in these variables. An '''invariant''' is a polynomial in these ''n''&nbsp;+&nbsp;1 variables ''a''<sub>0</sub>, ..., ''a''<sub>''n''</sub> that is invariant under this action. More generally a '''covariant''' is a polynomial in ''a''<sub>0</sub>, ..., ''a''<sub>''n''</sub>, ''x'', ''y'' that is invariant, so an invariant is a special case of a covariant where the variables ''x'' and ''y'' do not occur. More generally still, a '''simultaneous invariant''' is a polynomial in the coefficients of several different forms in ''x'' and&nbsp;''y''.
 
In terms of representation theory, given any representation ''V'' of the group ''SL''<sub>2</sub>('''C''') one can ask for the ring of invariant polynomials on ''V''. Invariants of a binary form of degree ''n'' correspond to taking ''V'' to be the (''n''&nbsp;+&nbsp;1)-dimensional irreducible representation, and covariants correspond to taking ''V'' to be the sum of the irreducible representations of dimensions 2 and&nbsp;''n''&nbsp;+&nbsp;1.
 
The invariants of a binary form are a graded algebra, and {{harvtxt|Gordan|1868}} proved that this algebra is finitely generated if the base field is the complex numbers.
 
Forms of degrees 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are sometimes called quadrics, cubic, quartics, quintics, sextics, septics or septimics, octics or octavics, nonics, and decics or decimics. "Quantic" is an old name for a form of arbitrary degree. Forms in 1, 2, 3, 4, ... variables are called unary, binary, ternary, quaternary, ... forms.
 
==Examples==
 
A form ''f'' is itself a covariant of degree 1 and order ''n''.
 
The [[discriminant]] of a form is an invariant.
 
The [[resultant]] of two forms is a simultaneous invariant of them.
 
The Hessian covariant of a form {{harvtxt|Hilbert|1993|loc=p.88}} is the determinant of the [[Hessian matrix]]
:<math>H(f) = \begin{bmatrix}
\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x\,\partial y}  \\[10pt]
\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial y\,\partial x} & \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial y^2}
\end{bmatrix}.</math>
It is a covariant of order 2''n''&minus; 4 and degree 2.
 
The [[catalecticant]] is an invariant of degree ''n''/2+1 of a binary form of even degree ''n''.
 
The [[canonizant]] is a covariant of degree and order (''n''+1)/2 of a binary form of odd degree ''n''.
 
The [[Jacobian matrix and determinant|Jacobian]]
:<math> \det \begin{bmatrix}
\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial f}{\partial y}  \\[10pt]
\frac{\partial g}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial g}{\partial y} 
\end{bmatrix}.</math>  
is a simultaneous invariant of two forms ''f'', ''g''.
 
==The ring of invariants==
 
The structure of the ring of invariants has been worked out for small degrees. {{harvtxt|Sylvester|Franklin|1879}} gave tables of the numbers of generators of invariants and covariants for forms of degree up to 10, though the tables have a few minor errors for large degrees, mostly where a few invariants or covariants are omitted.
 
===Covariants of a binary linear form===
 
For linear forms ''ax'' + ''by'' the only invariants are constants. The algebra of covariants is generated by the form itself of degree 1 and order 1.
 
===Covariants of a binary quadric===
 
The algebra of invariants of the quadratic form ''ax''<sup>2</sup> + 2''bxy'' + ''cy''<sup>2</sup> is a polynomial algebra in 1 variable generated by the discriminant ''b''<sup>2</sup> &minus; ''ac'' of degree 2. The algebra of covariants is a polynomial algebra in 2 variables generated by the discriminant together with the form ''f'' itself (of degree 1 and order 2). {{harv|Schur|1968|loc=II.8}} {{harv|Hilbert|1993|loc=XVI, XX}}
 
===Covariants of a binary cubic===
 
The algebra of invariants of the cubic form ''ax''<sup>3</sup> + 3''bx''<sup>2</sup>''y'' + 3''cxy''<sup>2</sup> + ''dy''<sup>3</sup> is a polynomial algebra in 1 variable generated by the discriminant ''D'' = 3''b''<sup>2</sup>''c''<sup>2</sup+ 6''abcd'' &minus; 4''b''<sup>3</sup>''d'' &minus; 4''c''<sup>3</sup>''a'' &minus; ''a''<sup>2</sup>''d''<sup>2</sup> of degree 4. The algebra of covariants is generated by the discriminant, the form itself (degree 1, order 3), the Hessian ''H'' (degree 2, order 2) and a covariant ''T'' of degree 3 and order 3. They are related by the syzygy 4''h''<sup>3</sup>=''Df''<sup>2</sup>-''T''<sup>2</sup> of degree 6 and order 6. {{harv|Schur|1968|loc=II.8}} {{harv|Hilbert|1993|loc=XVII, XX}}
 
===Covariants of a binary quartic===
 
The algebra of invariants of a quartic form is generated by invariants ''i'', ''j'' of degrees 2, 3This ring is naturally isomorphic to the ring of modular forms of level 1, with the two generators corresponding to the Eisenstein series ''E''<sub>4</sub> and ''E''</sub>6</sub>. The algebra of covariants is generated by these two invariants together with the form ''f'' of degree 1 and order 4, the Hessian ''H'' of degree 2 and order 4, and a covariant ''T'' of degree 3 and order 6. They are related by a syzygy ''jf''<sup>3</sup>&minus;''Hf''<sup>2</sup>''i''+4''H''<sup>3</sup>+''T''<sup>2</sup>=0 of degree 6 and order 12. {{harv|Schur|1968|loc=II.8}} {{harv|Hilbert|1993|loc=XVIII, XXII}}
 
===Covariants of a binary quintic===
 
The algebra of invariants of a quintic form was found by Sylvester and is generated by invariants of degree 4, 8, 12, 18. The generators of degrees 4, 8, 12 generate a polynomial ring, which contains the square of Hermite's skew invariant of degree 18. The invariants are rather complicated to write out explicitly: Sylvester showed that the generators of degrees 4, 8, 12, 18 have 12, 59, 228, and 848 terms often with very large coefficients. {{harv|Schur|1968|loc=II.9}} {{harv|Hilbert|1993|loc=XVIII}} The ring of covariants is generated by 23 covariants, one of which is the [[canonizant]] of degree 3 and order 3.
 
===Covariants of a binary sextic===
 
The algebra of invariants of a sextic form is generated by invariants of degree 2, 4, 6, 10, 15. The generators of degrees 2, 4, 6, 10 generate a polynomial ring, which contains the square of the generator of degree 15. {{harv|Schur|1968|loc=II.9}} The ring of covariants is generated by 26 covariants. The ring of invariants is closely related to the moduli space of curves of genus 2, because such a curve can be represented as a double cover of the projective line branched at 6 points, and the 6 points can be taken as the roots of a binary sextic.
 
===Covariants of a binary septic===
 
The ring of invariants of binary septics is anomalous and has caused several published errors. Cayley claimed incorrectly that the ring of invariants is not finitely generated. {{harvtxt|Sylvester|Franklin|1879}} gave lower bounds of 26 and 124 for the number of generators of the ring of invariants and the ring of covariants and observed that an unproved "fundamental postulate" would imply that equality holds.  However {{harvtxt|von Gall|1888}} showed that Sylvester's numbers are not equal to the numbers of generators, which are 30 for the ring of invariants and at least 130 for the ring of covariants, so Sylvester's fundamental postulate is wrong. {{harvtxt|von Gall|1888}} and  {{harvtxt|Dixmier|Lazard|1986}} showed that the algebra of invariants of a degree 7 form is generated by a set with 1 invariant of degree 4, 3 of degree 8, 6 of degree 12, 4 of degree 14, 2 of degree 16, 9 of degree 18, and one of each of the degrees 20, 22, 26, 30. {{harvtxt|Cröni|2002}} gives 147 generators for the ring of covariants.
 
===Covariants of a binary octavic===
 
{{harvtxt|Sylvester|Franklin|1879}} showed that the ring of invariants of a degree 8 form is generated by 9 invariants of degrees 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and the ring of covariants is generated by 69 covariants. August von Gall ({{harvtxt|von Gall|1880}}) and {{harvtxt|Shioda|1967}} confirmed the generators for the ring of invariants and showed that the ideal of relations between them is generated by elements of degrees 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
 
===Covariants of a binary nonic===
 
{{harvtxt|Brouwer|Popoviciu|2010a}} showed that the algebra of invariants of a degree 9 form is generated by 92 invariants
 
===Covariants of a binary decimic===
 
Sylvester stated that the ring of invariants of binary decics is generated by 104 invariants the ring of covariants by 475 covariants; his list is to be correct for degrees up to 16 but wrong for higher degrees.  {{harvtxt|Brouwer|Popoviciu|2010b}} showed that the algebra of invariants of a degree 10 form is generated by 106 invariants
 
===Covariants of a binary undecimic===
 
The ring of invariants of binary forms of degree 11 is complicated and has not yet been described explicitly.
 
===Covariants of a binary duodecimic===
 
For forms of degree 12 {{harvtxt|Sylvester|1881}} found that in degrees up to 14 there are 109 basic invariants. There are at least 4 more in higher degrees. The number of basic covariants is at least 989.
 
The number of generators for invariants and covariants of binary forms can be found in {{OEIS|id=A036983}} and {{OEIS|id=A036984}}, respectively.
 
==Invariants of several binary forms==
 
The covariants of a binary form are essentially the same as joint invariants of a binary form and a binary linear form. More generally, on can ask for the joint invariants (and covariants) of any collection of binary forms. Some cases that have been studied are listed below.
 
===Covariants of two linear forms===
 
There are 1 basic invariant and 3 basic covariants.
 
===Covariants of a linear form and a quadratic===
 
There are 2 basic invariants and 5 basic covariants.
 
===Covariants of a linear form and a cubic===
 
There are 4 basic invariants (essentially the covariants of a cubic)  and 13 basic covariants.
 
===Covariants of a linear form and a quartic===
 
There are 5 basic invariants (essentially the basic covariants of a quartic) and 20 basic covariants.
 
===Covariants of a linear form and a quintic===
 
There are 23 basic invariants (essentially the basic covariants of a quintic) and 94 basic covariants.
 
===Covariants of a linear form and a quantic===
 
===Covariants of several linear forms===
 
The ring of invariants of ''n'' linear forms is generated by ''n''(''n''–1)/2 invariants of degree 2.
The ring of covariants of ''n'' linear forms is essentially the same as the ring of invariants of ''n''+1 linear forms.
 
===Covariants of two quadratics===
 
There are 3 basic invariants and 6 basic covariants.
 
===Covariants of two quadratics and a linear form===
 
===Covariants of several linear and quadratic forms===
 
The ring of invariants of a sum of ''m'' linear forms and ''n'' quadratic forms
is generated by ''m''(''m''–1)/2 + ''n''(''n''+1)/2 generators in degree 2, ''nm
''(''m''+1)/2 + ''n''(''n''–1)(''n''–2)/6 in degree 3, and m''(''m''+1)''n''(''n
''–1)/4 in degree 4.
 
For the number of generators of the ring of covariants, change ''m'' to ''m''+1.
 
===Covariants of a quadratic and a cubic===
 
There are 5 basic invariants and 15 basic covariants
 
===Covariants of a quadratic and a quartic===
 
There are 6 basic invariants and 18 basic covariants
 
===Covariants of a quadratic and a quintic===
 
There are 29 basic invariants and 92 basic covariants
 
===Covariants of a cubic and a quartic===
 
There are 20 basic invariants and 63 basic covariants
 
===Covariants of two quartics===
 
There are 8 basic invariants (3 of degree 2, 4 of degree 3, and 1 of degree 4) and 28 basic covariants. (Gordan gave 30 covariants, but Sylvester showed that two of these are reducible.)
 
===Covariants of many cubics or  quartics===
 
The numbers of generators of invariants or covariants were given by {{harvtxt|Young|1899}}.
 
==See also==
 
*[[Ternary cubic]]
*[[Ternary quartic]]
 
==References==
 
*{{Citation | last1=Brouwer | first1=Andries E. | last2=Popoviciu | first2=Mihaela | title=The invariants of the binary nonic | doi=10.1016/j.jsc.2010.03.003 | year=2010a | journal=Journal of Symbolic Computation | issn=0747-7171 | volume=45 | issue=6 | pages=709–720 | mr=2639312}}
*{{Citation | last1=Brouwer | first1=Andries E. | last2=Popoviciu | first2=Mihaela | title=The invariants of the binary decimic | doi=10.1016/j.jsc.2010.03.002 | year=2010b | journal=Journal of Symbolic Computation | issn=0747-7171 | volume=45 | issue=8 | pages=837–843 | mr=2657667}}
*{{Citation | last1=Dixmier | first1=Jacques | last2=Lazard | first2=D. | title=Minimum number of fundamental invariants for the binary form of degree 7 | doi=10.1016/S0747-7171(88)80026-9 | year=1988 | journal=Journal of Symbolic Computation | issn=0747-7171 | volume=6 | issue=1 | pages=113–115 | mr=961375}}
*{{Citation | last1=von Gall | first1=August Freiherr | title=Das vollständige Formensystem einer binären Form achter Ordnung | doi=10.1007/BF01444117 | year=1880 | journal=[[Mathematische Annalen]] | issn=0025-5831 | volume=17 | issue=1 | pages=31–51 | mr=1510048}}
*{{Citation | last1=von Gall | first1=August Freiherr | title=Das vollständige Formensystem der binären Form 7<sup>ter</sup>Ordnung | doi=10.1007/BF01206218 | year=1888 | journal=[[Mathematische Annalen]] | issn=0025-5831 | volume=31 | issue=3 | pages=318–336 | mr=1510486}}
*{{Citation | last1=Gordan | first1=Paul | title=Beweis, dass jede Covariante und Invariante einer binären Form eine ganze Funktion mit numerischen Coeffizienten einer endlichen Anzahl solcher Formen ist  | doi=10.1515/crll.1868.69.323 | year=1868 | journal= J. F. Math | volume=69 | pages= 323–354 | issue=69}}
*{{Citation | last1=Hilbert | first1=David | author1-link=David Hilbert | url=http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521449030|title=Theory of algebraic invariants | origyear=1897 | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | isbn=978-0-521-44457-6 | year=1993 | mr=1266168}}
*{{Citation | last1=Kung | first1=Joseph P. S. | last2=Rota | first2=Gian-Carlo | author2-link=Gian-Carlo Rota | title=The invariant theory of binary forms | url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1984-10-01/S0273-0979-1984-15188-7 | doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1984-15188-7 | year=1984 | journal=American Mathematical Society. Bulletin. New Series | issn=0002-9904 | volume=10 | issue=1 | pages=27–85 | mr=722856}}
*{{Citation | last1=Schur | first1=Issai | editor1-last=Grunsky | editor1-first=Helmut | title=Vorlesungen über Invariantentheorie | publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] | location=Berlin, New York | series=Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften | year=1968 | volume=143 |isbn = 978-3-540-04139-9 | mr=0229674}}
*{{Citation | last1=Shioda | first1=Tetsuji | title=On the graded ring of invariants of binary octavics | year=1967 | journal=[[American Journal of Mathematics]] | issn=0002-9327 | volume=89 | pages=1022–1046 | mr=0220738 | jstor=2373415 | doi=10.2307/2373415 | issue=4}}
*{{Citation | last1=Sturmfels | first1=Bernd | author1-link=Bernd Sturmfels | title=Algorithms in invariant theory | publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] | location=Berlin, New York | series=Texts and Monographs in Symbolic Computation | isbn=978-3-211-82445-0 | doi=10.1007/978-3-211-77417-5 | year=1993 | mr=1255980}}
*{{Citation | last1=Sylvester | first1=J. J. | author1-link=J. J. Sylvester | last2=Franklin | first2=F. | title=Tables of the Generating Functions and Groundforms for the Binary Quantics of the First Ten Orders | doi=10.2307/2369240 | year=1879 | journal=[[American Journal of Mathematics]] | issn=0002-9327 | volume=2 | issue=3 | pages=223–251 | mr=1505222}}
*{{Citation | last1=Sylvester | first1=James Joseph | title=Tables of the Generating Functions and Groundforms of the Binary Duodecimic, with Some General Remarks, and Tables of the Irreducible Syzygies of Certain Quantics | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2369149 | publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press | year=1881 | journal=[[American Journal of Mathematics]] | issn=0002-9327 | volume=4 | issue=1 | pages= 41–61}}
 
==External links==
*{{citation|first=Andries E. |last=Brouwer|url=http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/math/invar.html |title=Invariants of binary forms}}
 
[[Category:Invariant theory]]

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