Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding

Michael Eastwood

doi:10.5817/AM2014-5-265

Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding

Michael Eastwood^*

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Abstract

The standard conformal compactification of Euclidean space is the round sphere. We use conformal geodesics to give an elementary proof that this is the only possible conformal compactification.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	265-271
Number of pages	7
Journal	Archivum Mathematicum
Volume	50
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5817/AM2014-5-265
Publication status	Published - 2014

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