Rectification of spheres of co-dimension 1 and 2 in R^n

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2008.06.003MaRDI QIDQ1001992zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Farzali Izadi

Publication date 20 February 2009

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2008.06.003

zbMATH Keywords

conformal mappingdiffeomorphismnomographyrectifiable family of circlesrectifiable pencil of spheresrectification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

Review text

Motivated by problems in nomography, \textit{A. G. Khovanskii} proved [Sib. Mat. Zh. 21, No.~4, 221--226 (1980; Zbl 0454.53001)]: If a rectifiable pencil \(S\) of circles in \(\mathbb R^2\) passing through the origin and containing at least seven circles, then all circles have a common point different from the origin. Hereby a rectification of \(S\) is a germ \(\Phi\) of a diffeomorphism \((\mathbb R^2,0)\to (\mathbb R^2,0)\) such that the image \(\Phi(s)\) of each circle \(s\in S\) belongs to a straight line. More precisely \(\Phi(s)\) denotes the restriction of \(\Phi\) to a germ of such a circle. In a former paper [Rocky Mt. J. Math. 35, No.~3, 881--899 (2005; Zbl 1083.53005)], the author generalized the result to circles in \(\mathbb R^3\). The present note treats the problem in case of spheres of codimension 1 and 2 in \(\mathbb R^n\).

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