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Two-sided fundamental theorem of affine geometry

Rings and Algebras 2017-02-27 v1

Abstract

The fundamental theorem of affine geometry says that a self-bijection ff of a finite-dimensional affine space over a possibly skew field takes left affine subspaces to left affine subspaces of the same dimension, then ff of the expected type, namely ff is a composition of an affine map and an automorphism of the field. We prove a two-sided analogue of this: namely, we consider self-bijections as above which take affine subspaces affine subspaces but which are allowed to take left subspaces to right ones and vice versa. We show that these maps again are of the expected type.

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@article{arxiv.1702.07701,
  title  = {Two-sided fundamental theorem of affine geometry},
  author = {A. G. Gorinov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07701},
  year   = {2017}
}

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