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    example of a real projective line is the projectively extended real line, which is often called the projective line. Formally, a real projective line P(R) is...
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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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    values are increasing and unbounded. The projectively extended real line may be identified with a real projective line in which three points have been assigned...
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    called the projective plane; the qualifier "real" is added to distinguish it from other projective planes such as the complex projective plane and finite...
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    concept of a projective space originated from the visual effect of perspective, where parallel lines seem to meet at infinity. A projective space may thus...
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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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    P1(Z). The projective line over a division ring results in a single auxiliary point ∞ = U[1, 0]. Examples include the real projective line, the complex...
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    undefined on the projective line, but is defined in its extension to a wheel. Starting with the real numbers, the corresponding projective "line" is geometrically...
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    In projective geometry, the harmonic conjugate point of a point on the real projective line with respect to two other points is defined by the following...
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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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    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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  • the real line can be compactified in several different ways. The one-point compactification of R is a circle (namely, the real projective line), and the...
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    action. Excluding (0,0) from P makes [x : y] projective coordinates which describe the real projective line, a one-dimensional space. Since the origin is...
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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...
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  • In 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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    real case, a point at infinity completes a line into a topologically closed curve. In higher dimensions, all the points at infinity form a projective...
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    points of a non-singular projective cubic fall into one or two 'ovals'. One of these ovals crosses every real projective line, and thus is never bounded...
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  • Point-pair separation (category Projective geometry)
    In a cyclic order, such as the real projective line, two pairs of points separate each other when they occur alternately in the order. Thus the ordering...
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    zero set of a polynomial in two variables. A projective algebraic plane curve is the zero set in a projective plane of a homogeneous polynomial in three...
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    In projective geometry an ovoid is a sphere like pointset (surface) in a projective space of dimension d ≥ 3. Simple examples in a real projective space...
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    throws was described as "projective arithmetic" by John Stillwell (2005). In a section called "Projective arithmetic", he says The real difficulty is that the...
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    one-point compactification of the real numbers, which is the real projective line. Projective geometry also refers to a line at infinity in plane geometry...
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  • geometry, smooth projective planes are special projective planes. The most prominent example of a smooth projective plane is the real projective plane E {\displaystyle...
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    fibers over real projective space RPn with fiber S0. The Hopf construction gives circle bundles p : S2n+1 → CPn over complex projective space. This is...
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  • projective geometry asserts that is not so in the case of real projective spaces of dimension at least two. Synonyms include projectivity, projective...
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  • In mathematics, projective geometry is the study of geometric properties that are invariant with respect to projective transformations. This means that...
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    simply as ∞ {\displaystyle \infty } . There is also a distinct projectively extended real line where + ∞ {\displaystyle +\infty } and − ∞ {\displaystyle -\infty...
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  • duality and beyond that to duality in any finite-dimensional projective geometry. A projective plane C may be defined axiomatically as an incidence structure...
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    still has a total order; moreover, it is a complete lattice. The real projective line adds only one value ∞. It is also a compact space. Again, it is no...
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  • {\displaystyle X} into a projective space. A line bundle is ample if some positive power is very ample. An ample line bundle on a projective variety X {\displaystyle...
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