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The resolution of monoidal Cremona transformations of three-dimensional space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. W. Babbage
Affiliation:
Magdalene College

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A Cremona transformation Tn, n between two three-dimensional spaces is said to be monoidal if the surfaces of order n in one space which form the homaloidal system corresponding to the planes of the second space have a fixed (n − 1)-ple point O. If the surfaces of order n′ forming the homaloidal system in the second space have a fixed (n′ − 1)-ple point O′, the transformation is said to be bimonoidal. A particularly simple bimonoidal transformation is that which transforms lines through O into lines through O′, and planes through O into planes through O′. Such a transformation we shall call an M-transformation. Its equations can, by suitable choice of coordinates, be expressed in the form

where φn−1(x, y, z, w) = 0, φn(x, y, z, w) = 0 are monoids with vertex (0, 0, 0, 1).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1938

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