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- From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
- Subject: Re: Collineations
- In-Reply-To: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu's message of 13 Aug 92 23:07:15 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- References: <1992Aug12.194204.24356@uwm.edu> <ARA.92Aug13180715@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:52:16 GMT
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- In article <ARA.92Aug13180715@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- In article <1992Aug12.194204.24356@uwm.edu> radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe) writes:
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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?
- [Lucid proof that I wish I had written omitted]
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- If one relaces R by another field, the proof shows that f is the composition
- of an affine transformation with an automorphism of the field applied to all
- the coordinates. This works in n dimensional space for all n>1.
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- And to tie this to another thread, isn't this known as the Fundamental
- Theorem of Affine Geometry? (And the corresponding theorem for automorphisms
- of projective geometries known as the F.T.o.P.G.?)
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- Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
- Martin@cis.umassd.edu
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