In mathematics, the Labs septic surface is a degree-7 (septic) nodal surface with 99 nodes found by Labs (2006). As of 2015, it has the largest known number of nodes of a degree-7 surface, though this number is still less than the best known upper bound of 104 nodes given by Varchenko (1983).
See also Barth surface Endrass surface Sarti surface Togliatti surface
References
Giventalʹ, A. B. (1983), "The maximum number of singular points on a projective hypersurface", Funktsionalʹnyĭ Analiz i ego Prilozheniya, 17 (3): 73–74, MR 0714227 Labs, Oliver (2006), "A septic with 99 real nodes", Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova, 116: 299–313, arXiv:math/0409348, Bibcode:2004math......9348L, MR 2287352 Varchenko, A. N. (1983), "Semicontinuity of the spectrum and an upper bound for the number of singular points of the projective hypersurface", Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 270 (6): 1294–1297, MR 0712934
External links Bothmer (4 October 2007), video of Labs septic


