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Cyclic Transformations of Polygons and the Generalized Inverse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Philip J. Davis
Philip J. Davis*
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Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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By a polygon with n vertices (an n-gon) we shall mean an ordered n-tuple of complex numbers (z1, z2, … , zn). The numbers zi will be called the vertices of the polygon. The zi may or may not be distinct, and it shall not matter whether a “conventional” polygon can be drawn with the zi as vertices. We shall operate in the spirit of the book of Bachmann and Schmidt [2] though not at the same level of algebraic generality inasmuch as these authors allow zi to belong to a general field.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1977 , pp. 756 - 770
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1977

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