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Osculatory properties of a certain curve in [n]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. L. Edge
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

Extract

1. When, as will be presumed henceforward, no two of a0, a1, …, an are equal the n + 1 equations

are linearly independent; x0, x1, …, xn are homogeneous coordinates in [n] projective space of n dimensions—and the simplex of reference S is self-polar for all the quadrics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1974

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