Search results for "Projective geometry"

The Influence of H. Grassmann on Italian Projective N-Dimensional Geometry

1996

On May 29, 1883, Corrado Segre took his doctorate in Turin (Torino), under Enrico D’Ovidio’s guidance. His thesis (Segre 1884a,b) was published one year later in the Journal of the local Academy of Science, and after a short time it became a fundamental starting point for the development of Italian projective n-dimensional geometry.

The geometry of surfaces in 4-space from a contact viewpoint

1995

We study the geometry of the surfaces embedded in ℝ4 through their generic contacts with hyperplanes. The inflection points on them are shown to be the umbilic points of their families of height functions. As a consequence we prove that any generic convexly embedded 2-sphere in ℝ4 has inflection points.

Convexly generic curves in R 3

1988

We study curves immersed in R 3, with special interest in the description of their convex hull frontier structure from a global viewpoint. Genericity conditions are set for these curves by looking at the singularities of height functions on them. We define panel structures for convexly generic curves and work out numerical relations involving the number of tritangent support planes. As a consequence, a generic version of the 4-vertex theorem for convex curves in R 3 is obtained.

A Dido problem for domains in ?2 with a given inradius

1990

We find which are the simply connected domains in ℝ2 satisfying the Dido condition for a straight shoreline, with a given area A and a fixed inradius ϱ, which minimize the length of the free boundary. There are three different cases according to the values of A and ϱ.

On a-semiaffine planes with invisible lines

1987

Translationsstrukturen, die weder axial noch zentral sind

1979

On t-covers in finite projective spaces

1979

A t-cover of the finite projective space PG(d,q) is a setS of t-dimensional subspaces such that any point of PG(d,q) is contained in at least one element ofS. In Theorem 1 a lower bound for the cardinality of a t-coverS in PG(d,q) is obtained and in Theorem 2 it is shown that this bound is best possible for all positive integers t,d and for any prime-power q.

INCIDENCE CONSTRAINTS: A COMBINATORIAL APPROACH

2006

The simplest geometric constraints are incidences between points and lines in the projective plane. This problem is universal, in the sense that all algebraic systems reduce to such geometric constraints. Detecting incidence dependences between these geometric constraints is NP-complete. New methods to prove incidence theorems are proposed, which use strictly no computer algebra but only combinatorial arguments.

Embedding finite linear spaces in projective planes, II

1987

Abstract It is shown that a finite linear space with maximal point degree n + 1 can be embedded in a projective plane of order n, provided that the line sizes are big enough.

On simple families of functions and their Legendrian mappings

2004

We study germs of $n$-parameter families of functions, that is, function-germs of the type $f : (\mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}, 0) \to (\mathbb{R}, 0)$ defined on the total space of the trivial bundle $ \mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^n $. There is a natural notion of $V$-equivalence for such function-germs. We introduce the Young diagram of $n$-parameter families satisfying a non-degeneracy condition. We classify all such simple $n$-parameter families and give their versal deformations. This result has direct applications to contact and projective geometry.