On the Theory of Gordan-Noether on Homogeneous Forms with Zero Hessian (Improved Version)

We give a detailed proof for Gordan-Noether’s results in “Ueber die algebraischen Formen, deren Hesse’sche Determinante identisch verschwindet.” C. Lossen has written a paper in a similar direction as the present paper, but did not provide a proof for every result. In our paper, every result is proved. Furthermore, our paper is independent of Lossen’s paper and includes a considerable number of new observations.