point", which is subject to the axioms of projective geometry. For some such set of axioms, the projective spaces that are defined have been shown to be...
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complex projective space is the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers. By analogy, whereas the points of a real projective space label...
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In mathematics, real projective space, denoted R P n {\displaystyle \mathbb {RP} ^{n}} or P n ( R ) , {\displaystyle \mathbb {P} _{n}(\mathbb {R}...
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In algebraic geometry, a projective variety is an algebraic variety that is a closed subvariety of a projective space. That is, it is the zero-locus in...
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mathematics, quaternionic projective space is an extension of the ideas of real projective space and complex projective space, to the case where coordinates...
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space. In quantum mechanics, the equivalence classes [ v ] {\displaystyle [v]} are also referred to as rays or projective rays. Each such projective ray...
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the complex projective plane, and finite, such as the Fano plane. A projective plane is a 2-dimensional projective space. Not all projective planes can...
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duality readily extends to space duality and beyond that to duality in any finite-dimensional projective geometry. A projective plane C may be defined axiomatically...
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real projective plane, denoted R P 2 {\displaystyle \mathbf {RP} ^{2}} or P 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {P} _{2}} , is a two-dimensional projective space...
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especially in the group theoretic area of algebra, the projective linear group (also known as the projective general linear group or PGL) is the induced action...
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compared to elementary Euclidean geometry, projective geometry has a different setting (projective space) and a selective set of basic geometric concepts...
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subsets of projective space. Projective varieties were subsets defined by a set of homogeneous polynomials. At each point of the projective variety, all...
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In algebraic geometry, a weighted projective space P(a0,...,an) is the projective variety Proj(k[x0,...,xn]) associated to the graded ring k[x0,...,xn]...
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Homography (redirect from Projective transformation)
In projective geometry, a homography is an isomorphism of projective spaces, induced by an isomorphism of the vector spaces from which the projective spaces...
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line, called a projective line. Dimension 2: There are at least 2 lines, and any two lines meet. A projective space for n = 2 is a projective plane. These...
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In projective geometry and mathematics more generally, a projective line is, roughly speaking, the extension of a usual line by a point called a point...
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Hypersurface (redirect from Projective hypersurface)
rational over the Gaussian rationals. A projective (algebraic) hypersurface of dimension n – 1 in a projective space of dimension n over a field k is defined...
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and more specifically in projective geometry, a projective frame or projective basis is a tuple of points in a projective space that can be used for defining...
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In geometry, a (globally) projective polyhedron is a tessellation of the real projective plane. These are projective analogs of spherical polyhedra – tessellations...
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The concept of a Projective space plays a central role in algebraic geometry. This article aims to define the notion in terms of abstract algebraic geometry...
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Algebraic variety (redirect from Projective algebraic set)
by definition quasi-projective varieties, meaning that they were open subvarieties of closed subvarieties of a projective space. For example, in Chapter...
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projective space Pn is a moduli space that parametrizes the space of lines in Rn+1 which pass through the origin. Similarly, complex projective space...
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homogeneous coordinates in the traditional sense of projective geometry. The Betti numbers of the complex projective plane are 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, ..... The middle...
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tautological line bundle on projective space. The projectivization P ( V ) {\displaystyle \mathbf {P} (V)} of a vector space V {\displaystyle V} over a...
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defining a projective space as the set of the vector lines in a vector space of dimension one more. As for affine spaces, projective spaces are defined...
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group is a subgroup of the projective group. For instance, Möbius transformations (transformations of the complex projective line, or Riemann sphere) are...
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Proj construction (section Projective n-space)
schemes, which produces objects with the typical properties of projective spaces and projective varieties. The construction, while not functorial, is a fundamental...
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isomorphic to it. There are exactly 50 fake projective planes. Prasad & Yeung (2006) found four examples of fake projective 4-folds, and showed that no arithmetic...
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itself. The projective line over K , {\displaystyle K,} denoted P 1 ( K ) , {\displaystyle \mathbf {P} ^{1}(K),} is a one-dimensional space. In particular...
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Quadric (redirect from Quadric (projective geometry))
points of the projective completion are the points of the projective space whose projective coordinates are zeros of P. So, a projective quadric is the...
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