Discriminants of convex curves are homeomorphic
dg-ga
2008-02-03 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
For a given real generic curve let denote the ruled hypersurface in consisting of all osculating subspaces to of codimension 2. A curve is called convex if the total number of its intersection points (counted with multiplicities) with any hyperplane in does not exceed . In this short note we show that for any two convex real projective curves and the pairs and are homeomorphic answering a question posed by V.Arnold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9608007,
title = {Discriminants of convex curves are homeomorphic},
author = {B. Shapiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9608007},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
The usual AMSTeX file, 7 pages, no figures AMSTeX