A characterization of the projective transformation in Minkowski 3-space

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ALAGÖZ Y.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, cilt.38, sa.5, ss.896-904, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 38 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3906/mat-1402-12
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.896-904
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We consider transformations preserving asymptotic directions of surfaces in Minkowski 3-space and show that a transformation preserves the asymptotic directions of a surface if only if it is the projective one. Therefore, we obtain a characterization of the projective transformation.