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- From: radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe)
- Subject: Collineations
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.194204.24356@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: UW-Milwaukee Math Department
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:42:04 GMT
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- Suppose f is a one-to-one function from the plane to itself
- which maps lines into lines, and suppose the image of f is
- not contained in a line. Must f be affine?
-
- I have found some partial results. The restriction of f to
- Q^2 is equal to the restriction of a projective transformation.
- If one also assumes that f is surjective, or continuous, or that
- it preserves betweenness, then f must be affine.
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- David Radcliffe
- radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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