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Our concern is with the group of conformal transformations of a finite-dimensional real quadratic space of signature (p,q), that is one that is isomorphic to ${ℝ}^{p,q}$, the real vector space ${ℝ}^{p+q}$, furnished with the quadratic form $x^{\left(2\right)}=x·x=-x_1^2-x_2^2-...-x_p^2+x_{p+1}^2+...+x_{p+q}^2$, and especially with a description of this group that involves Clifford algebras.

In this paper we review some of the concepts and results of V. I. Arnol’d [1] for curves in $S^2$ and extend them to curves and surfaces in $S^3$.