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Real classification of complex conics

Part of: Real and complex geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. E. Newstead
P. E. Newstead
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX.
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Extract

The classification of conies in the real or complex projective plane under the action of the appropriate group is simple and well known. We consider here the more complicated question of classifying conies in the complex projective plane ℂℙ2 under the action of the real projective group PGL (3, ℝ).

MSC classification

Secondary: 51M99: None of the above, but in this section
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , June 1981 , pp. 36 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1981

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