On Wahl's proof of $μ(6)=65$
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D. Jaffe and D. Ruberman proved in 1997 that a sextic hypersurface in $\mathbb{P}^3$ has at most 65 nodes (the bound is sharp by Barth's construction).
Almost at the same time, J. Wahl proposed a much shorter proof of the same result, by proving that a linear code $V\subset \F^{66}$ with weights in $\{24,32,40\}$ has dimension $\dim(V)\leq12$.
He claimed that Jaffe-Ruberman's theorem follows as a corollary since the code associated to a sextic with n nodes has dimension at least $n-53$ and an incorrect result stated by Casnati and Catanese asserted that the possible cardinalities of an even set of nodes on a sextic were only 24, 32 and 40.
Recently Catanese and Tonoli showed that the possible cardinalities of an even set of nodes on a sextic are exactly 24, 32, 40, 56. According to the above cardinalities, the theorem of Jaffe and Ruberman reduces to the following:
Let $V\subset \F^{66}$ be a code with weights in $\{24,32,40,56\}$. Then $\dim(V)\leq12$.
In this short note we give an elementary proof of this theorem using and integrating Wahl's ideas.
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5 pages