Foundations of Incidence Geometry: Projective and Polar Spaces

By Johannes Ueberberg

Book Overview

I Projective and Affine Geometries.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Geometries and Pregeometries.- 3. Projective and Affine Planes.- 4. Projective Spaces.- 5. Affine Spaces.- 6. A Characterization of Affine Spaces.- 7. Residues and Diagrams.- 8. Finite geometries.- II Isomorphisms and Collineations.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Morphisms.- 3. Projections.- 4. Collineations of projective and affine spaces.- 5. Central Collineations.- 6. The Theorem of Desargues.- III Projective Geometry over a Vector Space.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Projective Space P(V).- 3. Homogeneous Coordinates of Projective Spaces.- 4. Automorphisms of P(V).- 5. The Affine Space AG(W).- 6. Automorphisms of A(W).- 7. The First Fundamental Theorem.- 8. The Second Fundamental Theorem.- IV Polar Spaces and Polarities.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Theorem of Buekenhout-Shult.- 3. The diagram of a polar space.- 4. Polarities.- 5. Sesquilinear Forms.- 6. Pseudo-quadrics.- 7. The Kleinian Polar Space.- 8. The Theorem of Buekenhout and Parmentier.- V Quadrics and Quadratic Sets.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Quadratic Sets.- 3. Quadrics.- 4. Quadratic Sets in PG(3, K).- 5. Perspective Quadratic Sets.- 6. Classification of the Quadratic Sets.- 7. The Kleinian Quadric.- 8. The Theorem of Segre.- 9. Further Reading.- References.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642209718
• ISBN13: 9783642209710
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"