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Quadrics Associated with a Möbius Hexad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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§1. The following investigation arose out of a reconsideration of a certain invariant of six points in space

I = (1234)(3456)(5612) – (2345)(4561)(6123)

where (1234) denotes the determinant whose rows are the coordinates of the first four points: and similarly for the other factors. The vanishing of this invariant implies that the sixth point lies upon a certain quadric defined by the other five. The following elementary account brings out several interesting and possibly new theorems upon quadric surfaces.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1935

References

1 Cf. Journal of the London Math. Soc., 29 (1927), 233240 (238).Google Scholar Also Blaschke (Math. Zeitschrift, 29 (1920), 8393).Google Scholar