A remark on the theorem of Ivory (Q1331263)
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A remark on the theorem of Ivory (English)
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27 September 1994
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The author establishes a distance relation for corresponding points of two confocal (possibly degenerate) quadrics linked via an affinity of Euclidean \(n\)-space. This interesting result is in fact a far-reaching generalization of Ivory's theorem on confocal ellipsoids in Euclidean 3- space.
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confocal quadrics
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Ivory's theorem
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