Cayleyan

In algebraic geometry, the Cayleyan is a variety associated to a hypersurface by Arthur Cayley (1844), who named it the pippian in (Cayley 1857) and also called it the Steiner–Hessian.

See also

• Quippian

References

• Cayley, Arthur (1844), "Mémoire sur les courbes du troisième ordre", Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées 9: 285–293, Collected Papers, I, 183–189, https://archive.org/stream/collectedmathem01caylgoog#page/n199/mode/2up 
• Cayley, Arthur (1857), "A Memoir on Curves of the Third Order", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (The Royal Society) 147: 415–446, doi:10.1098/rstl.1857.0021, ISSN 0080-4614 
• Dolgachev, Igor V. (2012), Classical Algebraic Geometry: a modern view, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-01765-8, http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~idolga/CAG.pdf, retrieved 2012-04-06