Lie Sphere Geometry: With Applications to Submanifolds by Thomas E. Cecil

By Thomas E. Cecil

This e-book offers a transparent and entire glossy remedy of Lie sphere geometry and its purposes to the learn of Euclidean submanifolds. It starts with the development of the distance of spheres, together with the elemental notions of orientated touch, parabolic pencils of spheres, and Lie sphere differences. The hyperlink with Euclidean submanifold idea is proven through the Legendre map, which gives a strong framework for the research of submanifolds, specifically these characterised by means of regulations on their curvature spheres.This re-creation includes revised sections on taut submanifolds, compact right Dupin submanifolds, reducible Dupin submanifolds, and the cyclides of Dupin. thoroughly new fabric on isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres and Dupin hypersurfaces with 3 and 4 relevant curvatures can be incorporated. the writer surveys the recognized leads to those fields and exhibits instructions for additional study and wider software of the tools of Lie sphere geometry.Further key good points of Lie Sphere Geometry 2/e: offers the reader with the entire valuable historical past to arrive the frontiers of analysis during this zone; Fills a niche within the literature; no different thorough exam of Lie sphere geometry and its functions to submanifold concept; entire remedy of the cyclides of Dupin, together with eleven computer-generated illustrations; Rigorous exposition pushed through motivation and plentiful examples.

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2 Generation of the Lie Sphere Group by Inversions πx =x− 2 x, ξ ξ . , those which have lightlike poles. It is clear that π fixes every point in π and that π ξ = −ξ . A direct computation shows that π is in O(n − k, k) and that 2π = I . 6 below concerning the special case of Rk2k , where the metric has signature (k, k). In that case, let {e1 , . . , e2k } be an orthonormal basis with e1 , . . , ek spacelike and ek+1 , . . , e2k timelike. One can naturally choose a basis {v1 , . . , vk , w1 , .

A similar proof shows that Avi , Avj = 0 for i = j . Therefore, the equation Ax, Ay = λ x, y holds on an orthonormal basis, so it holds for all vectors. , λ > 0. 2. In the case k = n − k, conclusion (b) does not necessarily hold. For example, the linear map T defined by T vi = wi , T wi = vi , for 1 ≤ i ≤ k, preserves lightlike vectors, but the corresponding λ = −1. 1 we immediately obtain the following corollary. 3. (a) The group G of Lie sphere transformations is isomorphic to O(n + 1, 2)/{±I }.

When interpreted as a map on the space of spheres, it takes a sphere with center p and signed radius r to the sphere with center µp and signed radius µr. Thus Sµ is one of the two affine Laguerre transformations induced from the Euclidean central dilatation p → µp, for p ∈ R n . The transformation Sµ preserves the sign of the radius and hence the orientation of each sphere in R n . The other affine Laguerre transformation induced from the same central dilatation is Sµ , where is the change of orientation transformation.

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