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Conchoid surfaces of spheres

Algebraic Geometry 2014-01-10 v2

Abstract

The conchoid of a surface FF with respect to given fixed point OO is roughly speaking the surface obtained by increasing the radius function with respect to OO by a constant. This paper studies {\it conchoid surfaces of spheres} and shows that these surfaces admit rational parameterizations. Explicit parameterizations of these surfaces are constructed using the relations to pencils of quadrics in R3\R^3 and R4\R^4. Moreover we point to remarkable geometric properties of these surfaces and their construction.

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@article{arxiv.1111.1110,
  title  = {Conchoid surfaces of spheres},
  author = {Martin Peternell and David Gruber and Juana Sendra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1110},
  year   = {2014}
}
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