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Discriminants of convex curves are homeomorphic
Author(s):
B.
Shapiro
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
126
(1998),
1923-1930.
MSC (1991):
Primary 14H50
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Abstract:
For a given real generic curve let denote the ruled hypersurface in consisting of all osculating subspaces to of codimension 2. In this note we show that for any two convex real projective curves and the pairs and are homeomorphic.
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Additional Information:
B.
Shapiro
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Stockholm, S-10691, Sweden
Email:
shapiro@matematik.su.se
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04766-2
PII:
S 0002-9939(98)04766-2
Keywords:
Convex curves,
discriminants
Received by editor(s):
December 17, 1996
Communicated by:
Christopher Croke
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Copyright
1998,
American Mathematical Society
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