In mathematics, the algebraic butterfly curve is a

plane algebraic curve In mathematics, an affine algebraic plane curve is the zero set of a polynomial in two variables. A projective algebraic plane curve is the zero set in a projective plane of a homogeneous polynomial in three variables. An affine algebraic plane ...

of degree six, given by the equation :

x^6 + y^6 = x^2.

The butterfly curve has a single singularity with delta invariant three, which means it is a curve of

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

seven. The only plane curves of genus seven are singular, since seven is not a

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, and the minimum degree for such a curve is six. The butterfly curve has branching number and multiplicity two, and hence the singularity link has two components, pictured at right. The area of the algebraic butterfly curve is given by (with

gamma function In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by , the capital letter gamma from the Greek alphabet) is one commonly used extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. The gamma function is defined for all complex numbers except th ...

\Gamma

) :

4 \cdot \int_0^1 (x^2 - x^6)^ dx = \frac \approx 2.804,

and its

arc length ARC may refer to: Business * Aircraft Radio Corporation, a major avionics manufacturer from the 1920s to the '50s * Airlines Reporting Corporation, an airline-owned company that provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services ...

''s'' by :

s \approx 9.017.

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* -- Sequence for the area of algebraic butterfly * -- Sequence for the arc length of algebraic butterfly curve Sextic curves {{algebraic-geometry-stub

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