학술논문

Simplices osculating rational normal curves
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Subject
Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry
14A25, 14H50, 51N35
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Abstract
A classical result of von Staudt states that if eight planes osculate a twisted cubic curve and we divide them into two groups of four, then the eight vertices of the corresponding tetrahedra lie on a twisted cubic curve. In the current paper, we give an alternative proof of this result using modern tools, and at the same time we prove the analogous result for rational normal curves in any projective space. This higher dimensional generalization was claimed without proof in a paper of H.S. White in 1921.
Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure. Comments are welcome