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A figure in space of seven dimensions, and its sections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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Several papers have recently been published which include proofs of the following:
Theorem 1. Those trisecant planes of a rational normal quartic curve Cu which meet a second rational normal quartic curve Cv having six points in common with Cu also meet a third rational normal quartic curve Cw through these same six points. The three suffixes may be permuted in any way, the three curves forming a symmetrical set.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1934 , pp. 19 - 26
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1934
References
* Welchman, W. G., Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 28 (1932), 275CrossRefGoogle Scholar; H. G. Telling, Ibid. 403; D. W. Babbage, Ibid. 421; Semple, J. G., Journal London Math. Soc. 7 (1932), 266.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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* The locus is rational and is represented on [3] by means of cubic surfaces through three skew lines, and in other ways.
* A referee points out that these three systems of [5]'s are dual to the three systems of lines on . In this connection see also James, loc. cit. 674–675. Just as a trisecant plane of determines, by means of the three directrices through its intersections with , a secant [5], so a [4] which meets three generating solids of each in a line contains a directrix of , namely the transversal of the three lines. Viewed from this aspect Theorem 2 is the dual of the statement that any [4] which contains a directrix σ of lying on meets some generating solid of in a line and some generating solid of in a line. The truth of this statement is obvious; both the lines in question are the line σ itself, which is the dual of the space σ6 of Theorem 2.
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