Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding.

DOI10.5817/AM2014-5-265MaRDI QIDQ2948036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Eastwood

Publication date 29 September 2015

Published in Archivum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0746

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zbMATH Keywords

compactificationconformal circlesstereographic projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: The standard conformal compactification of Euclidean space is the round sphere. We use conformal geodesics to give an elementary proof that this is the only possible conformal compactification.

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