Lines tangent to $2n-2$ spheres in ${\mathbb R}^n$

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03014-3zbMath1063.14066arXivmath/0105180MaRDI QIDQ3151255

Frank J. Sottile, Thorsten Theobald

Publication date: 7 October 2002

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105180

zbMATH Keywords

spheretangent line

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99)

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Uses Software

• Macaulay2

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