Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding
Differential Geometry
2014-12-03 v1
Abstract
The standard conformal compactification of Euclidean space is the round sphere. We use conformal geodesics to give an elementary proof that this is the only possible conformal compactification.
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@article{arxiv.1412.0746,
title = {Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding},
author = {Michael Eastwood},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0746},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages