Eigenpoint collinearities of plane cubics

Abstract

Given a ternary homogeneous polynomial, the fixed points of the map from ${\mathbb{P}}^2$ to itself defined by its gradient are called its eigenpoints. We focus on cubic polynomials, and analyze configurations of eigenpoints that admit one or more alignments. We give a classification and explicit equations, in the coordinates of the points, of all configurations: this is accomplished by using both geometric techniques and by an extensive use of computer algebra.

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