Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding
Archivum Mathematicum (2014)
- Volume: 050, Issue: 5, page 265-271
- ISSN: 0044-8753
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topEastwood, Michael. "Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding." Archivum Mathematicum 050.5 (2014): 265-271. <http://eudml.org/doc/262198>.
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abstract = {The standard conformal compactification of Euclidean space is the round sphere. We use conformal geodesics to give an elementary proof that this is the only possible conformal compactification.},
author = {Eastwood, Michael},
journal = {Archivum Mathematicum},
keywords = {stereographic; conformal circles; compactification; stereographic projection; conformal circles; compactification},
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