Geometric properties of conformal transformations on R^p,q

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0059-7zbMATH Open1325.53023OpenAlexW3105291511MaRDI QIDQ744922FDOQ744922

Authors Matvei Libine, Surya Raghavendran

Publication date 12 October 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00520

zbMATH Keywords

fractional linear transformationsconformal transformations on \(\mathbb R^{p,q}\)Möbius transformationsMöbius geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35)

Abstract: We show that conformal transformations on the generalized Minkowski space $mathbb{R}^{p,q}$ map hyperboloids and affine hyperplanes into hyperboloids and affine hyperplanes. We also show that this action on hyperboloids and affine hyperplanes is transitive when $p$ or $q$ is $0$, and that this action has exactly three orbits if $p,qe0$. Then we extend these results to hyperboloids and affine planes of arbitrary dimension. These properties generalize the well-known properties of M"{o}bius (or fractional linear) transformations on the complex plane $mathbbC$.

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