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Duality of subanalytic sets

dg-ga 2008-02-03 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the link between a compact hypersurface in n+1\P^{n+1} and the set of all its tangent planes. In this context, we identify n+1\P^{n+1} to the set of linear subspaces of codimension one by orthogonal complementarity. This gives rise to a kind of duality which has already been studied Bruce and Romerro-Fuster, and relates a hypersurface to the set of its tangent planes. But in these papers the dual, in this sense, of the set of tangent planes of a hypersurface was not defined and iteration of the procedure was not possible. Therefore we extend this type of duality to more general sets and achieve a procedure which can be iterated and gives in fact an involution.

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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9706007,
  title  = {Duality of subanalytic sets},
  author = {Francois Pointet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9706007},
  year   = {2008}
}

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