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The duals of generic space curves and complete intersections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

J. W. Bruce
Affiliation:
University College, Cork, Ireland
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In a previous paper we discussed the duals of generic hypersurfaces: both smooth hypersurfaces in ℝn and algebraic hypersurfaces in real or complex projective space ℙn. In this note we show how to extend the methods of [1] to cover the case of complete intersections in ℙn and preface this with a brief discussion on the contact of space curves in ℝn with planes. We shall use the notation of [1].

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1983

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