On Affine Normal Forms and a Classification of Homogeneous Surfaces in Affine Three-Space

Geometriae Dedicata - Tập 77 - Trang 11-69 - 1999
Michael Eastwood1, Vladimir Ezhov1
1Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Adelaide, South Australia

Tóm tắt

We classify homogeneous surfaces in real and complex affine three-space. This is achieved by choosing affine coordinates so that the surface is defined by a function whose Taylor series is in a preferred normal form.

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