Discriminants of convex curves are homeomorphic

Abstract: For a given real generic curve

g a : S^{1} o B b b {R P}^{n}

let

D_{g} a

denote the ruled hypersurface in

B b b {R P}^{n}

consisting of all osculating subspaces to

g a

of codimension 2. A curve

g a : S^{1} o B b b {R P}^{n}

is called convex if the total number of its intersection points (counted with multiplicities) with any hyperplane in

B b b {R P}^{n}

does not exceed

n

. In this short note we show that for any two convex real projective curves

g a_{1} : S^{1} o B b b {R P}^{n}

and

g a_{2} : S^{1} o B b b {R P}^{n}

the pairs

(B b b {R P}^{n}, D_{g a_{1}})

and

(B b b {R P}^{n}, D_{g a_{2}})

are homeomorphic answering a question posed by V.Arnold.

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