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The quarto-quartic transformation of four-dimensional space associated, with certain protectively generated loci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. A. Todd
J. A. Todd
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Trinity College
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The principal object of the present paper is to give a geometrical account of a certain Cremona transformation of four-dimensional space ([4]) into itself. The transformation in question is analogous to the cubo-cubic transformation of [3] which is obtained by drawing cubic surfaces through a twisted sextic curve of genus three, . A similar transformation, in space of any number of dimensions, has been described analytically in a note by Godeaux; and most of our work in the present paper extends to the general case. The case of four dimensions is studied here as being less abstract, and more easily susceptible of geometrical treatment; in the general case it is less simple to dispense completely with algebraical methods. We shall see that the various loci which arise in the course of the work are already well known.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1930 , pp. 323 - 333
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1930

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