Lines Tangent to 2n-2 Spheres in R^n

Authors

Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow
Thorsten Theobald

Publication Date

2002

Journal or Book Title

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Abstract

We show that for n  3 there are 3 · 2n−1 complex common tangent lines to 2n−2 general spheres in Rn and that there is a choice of spheres with all common tangents real.

Comments

This is a pre-published version harvested from ArXiv.org. The published version can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3072967

Pages

4815-4829

Volume

354

Issue

12

Recommended Citation

Sottile, Frank and Theobald, Thorsten, "Lines Tangent to 2n-2 Spheres in R^n" (2002). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 125.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/math_faculty_pubs/125