Projective geometry

Whereas most theorems of geometry are concerned with the concepts distance, angle and congruence, a smaller number of others are only concerned with the incidence of points and straight lines. This distinction differentiates between the common metrical properties of geometry and those, which are independent of measurement, and which reflect the characteristics of what became known as projective geometry. 

A means of incorporating metric geometry into the more general projective geometry was developed by Cayley, preparing the way for the demonstration that projective geometry includes the affine. Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. This aspect is addressed by Veblen in the Appendix. 

The other seminal work of Veblen and Young (1910) served as a guide in the following short summary of what is considered essential aspects of projective geometry applied to cosmology. 

Projective geometry has developed independent of affine and absolute geometries and in a sense is a combination of the two by avoiding all but the hrst two of Euclid s axioms. The relation of intermediacy therefore also falls away and segments are not dehned. 

Each point on I projects to a unique point on I and each possible line through P connects two, uniquely dehned (homologous) points on I and I, with one exception. The perpendicular on OP through P fails to intersect I and hence the point X has no homologue on 1. By the same reasoning the point Y on I has no homologue on I. This creates an awkward dilemma 

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A certain dualism is observable in carbonium ion-carbanion chemistry, a dualism rather like that of lines and points in projective geometry. The reader may recall that interchanging the words "line and "point in a theorem of projective geometry converts it into a statement that is also a theorem, sometimes the same one. For most carbonium ion reactions a corresponding carbanion reaction is known. The dualism can be used as a method for the invention of new, or at least unobserved, carbanion reactions. The carbanionic reaction corresponding to the carbonium ion rearrangement is of course the internal nucleophilic... 

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Classification of Igneous Rocks Using Lithogeochemistry Data, Essential Rock Mineralogy, and Projective Geometry in a Streckeisen Ternary Diagram Approach... 

Keywords igneous rocks, petrographic dassification, lithogeochemistry, projective geometry, Streckeisen ternary diagrams. 

Projective geometry was created by Renaissance artists. To make a correct perspective drawing the scene of interest is projected into a plane that intersects all lines between points on the object and the eye of the artist. Affine... 

The same reasoning shows that non-radial planes acquire an extra line at infinity. It follows that projective space may be regarded as affine space plus a plane at infinity. One of the most elegant properties of projective geometry is the principle of duality which asserts that, in a projective plane every definition or theorem remains valid on the consistent interchange of the words line and point. 

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D. Hestenes and R. Ziegler, Projective geometry with Clifford algebra (http // modelingnts. la. asu. edu/pdf/PGwithCA.pdf). Acta Appl. Math. 23, 25—63 (1991). 

In classical projective geometry there is a concept of duality slightly different from the one used so far in this book. It is that every theorem or construction which relates points to lines has a dual which relates lines to points. For example, every pair of distinct points determines a line every pair of distinct lines determines a point. 

Projective geometry is a concept even less familiar than non-Euclidean geometry. It is generally recognized only in perspective engineering drawings and works of art. Being central to our main thesis an entire chapter is devoted to this topic. 

Theories like those of Lemaitre or Friedmann, which predict an expanding universe, are all based on forcing an affine metric, such as the Robertson-Walker metric, on the projective geometry of space-time. This has the effect of splitting local Minkowski space into separate space and time coordinates, without the natural complex relationship that ties space and time together. 

A fundamental operation in projective geometry is the mapping of points on a line (/) onto another I ) from a central point P, as shown in Figure 3.6. 

Points on the projective line are arranged in such a way that their order is cyclic. The Euclidean relations of parallelism, betweenness, order and congruence therefore have no meaning in projective geometry. It can be stated that, without exception, any two lines in the projective plane intersect in a point, any two points in projective space define a line and any two planes... 

It will in fact be shown that all conics, including the straight line, are equivalent in projective geometry. 

Radial lines in projection look like points and radial planes look like lines when viewed edge-on, which means that radial dimensions are lost. This correspondence dehnes the principle of duality which asserts that any dehnition or theorem in projective geometry remains valid on interchanging the words point and line, as well as the operations ... 

In projective geometry the line at infinity no longer has a special role and barycentric coordinates may be replaced by general projective coordinates... 

Barycentric coordinates can be referred to any given triangle with vertices (1,0,0), (0,1,0), (0,0,1) and imit point (1,1,1), the centroid. In contrast, projective coordinates can be applied to any quadrangle Take three of the four vertices to determine a system of barycentric coordinates and suppose that the fourth vertex is (/Ui,/U2> Ms)- Converted to projective coordinates the fourth vertex becomes (1,1,1). Whereas all triangles are alike in affine geometry, ali quadrangles are seen to be alike in projective geometry. 

A theorem, now considered seminal for projective geometry, was discovered by Pappus of Alexandria in about the year 320 ... 

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