Quadrics via Semigroups

MaRDI QIDQ6212900zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. N. Krishnachandran

Publication date 25 February 2009

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04) Regular semigroups (20M17) Analytic geometry with other transformation groups (51N25)

Abstract: This is the story of the rediscovery of classical three-dimensional geometry, especially the geometry of quadric surfaces, while studying the semigroup $M_2(mathbbR)$ of linear endomorphisms of a real plane. One of the surfaces that appears prominently in this context is the hyperboloid of one sheet, referred to as {em spaghetti bundle} in cite{Samu:88}. In this story the spaghetti presents itself as the set of idempotents in $M_2(mathbbR)$, the cone emerges as the set of nilpotent elements and the hyperbolic paraboloid as the set of semigroup-theoretic inverses of a singular element.

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