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Geometric Properties of Conformal Transformations on $\mathbb{R}^{p,q}$

Differential Geometry 2015-03-04 v1 Complex Variables Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We show that conformal transformations on the generalized Minkowski space Rp,q\mathbb{R}^{p,q} map hyperboloids and affine hyperplanes into hyperboloids and affine hyperplanes. We also show that this action on hyperboloids and affine hyperplanes is transitive when pp or qq is 00, and that this action has exactly three orbits if p,q0p, q \ne 0. Then we extend these results to hyperboloids and affine planes of arbitrary dimension. These properties generalize the well-known properties of M\"{o}bius (or fractional linear) transformations on the complex plane C\mathbb{C}.

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@article{arxiv.1503.00520,
  title  = {Geometric Properties of Conformal Transformations on $\mathbb{R}^{p,q}$},
  author = {Matvei Libine and Surya Raghavendran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00520},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in Geometriae Dedicata, 13 pages, no figures

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