A proof of Atiyah's conjecture on configurations of four points in Euclidean three-space (Q1601286)
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A proof of Atiyah's conjecture on configurations of four points in Euclidean three-space (English)
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25 June 2002
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In [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. A359, no. 1784, 1375-1387 (2001)] M. Atiyah introduced a certain matrix that can be associated to any configuration of \(n\) distinct points in Euclidean three-space, conjectured that it cannot be singular, and proved this conjecture for the case \(n=3\). The authors of the present paper prove this conjecture for \(n=4\) by an elaborate Maple-assisted computation of the determinant in question.
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Atiyah's conjecture
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configuration space
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