Alternative interpretation of the Plücker quadric's ambient space and its application

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-95588-9_79zbMATH Open1400.51010arXiv1803.09498OpenAlexW2963230470MaRDI QIDQ4554017FDOQ4554017

Authors: Georg Nawratil 

Publication date: 7 November 2018

Published in: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well-known that there exists a bijection between the set of lines of the projective 3-dimensional space $P^3$ and all real points of the so-called Pl"ucker quadric $Psi$. Moreover one can identify each point of the Pl"ucker quadric's ambient space with a linear complex of lines in $P^3$. Within this paper we give an alternative interpretation for the points of $P^5$ as lines of an Euclidean 4-space $E^4$, which are orthogonal to a fixed direction. By using the quaternionic notation for lines, we study straight lines in $P^5$ which correspond in the general case to cubic 2-surfaces in $E^4$. We show that these surfaces are geometrically connected with circular Darboux 2-motions in $E^4$, as they are basic surfaces of the underlying line-symmetric motions. Moreover we extend the obtained results to line-elements of the Euclidean 3-space $E^3$, which can be represented as points of a cone over $Psi$ sliced along the 2-dimensional generator space of ideal lines. We also study straight lines of its ambient space $P^6$ and show that they correspond to ruled surface strips composed of the mentioned 2-surfaces with circles on it. Finally we present an application of this interpretation in the context of interactive design of ruled surfaces and ruled surface strips/patches based on the algorithm of De Casteljau.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09498

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zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean 4-spacede Casteljau algorithmline-elementPlücker quadriccircular Darboux 2-motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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