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Plücker formulae for the orthogonal group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Kichoon Yang
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsArkansas State UniversityState University, Ar 72467United States of America
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Abstract

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Plücker formulae for horizontal curves in SO(m)-flag manifolds are derived. These formulae are seen to generalise the usual Plücker formulae for projective space curves. They also have applications in the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean sphere and the complex hyperquadric.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

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