Common transversals and tangents to two lines and two quadrics in P^3

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dc.creatorMegyesi, Gábor
dc.creatorSottile, Frank
dc.creatorTheobald, Thorsten
dc.date2002-06-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:48:54Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:48:54Z
dc.descriptionWe solve the following geometric problem, which arises in several three-dimensional applications in computational geometry: For which arrangements of two lines and two spheres in R^3 are there infinitely many lines simultaneously transversal to the two lines and tangent to the two spheres? We also treat a generalization of this problem to projective quadrics: Replacing the spheres in R^3 by quadrics in projective space P^3, and fixing the lines and one general quadric, we give the following complete geometric description of the set of (second) quadrics for which the 2 lines and 2 quadrics have infinitely many transversals and tangents: In the nine-dimensional projective space P^9 of quadrics, this is a curve of degree 24 consisting of 12 plane conics, a remarkably reducible variety.
dc.description26 pages, 9 .eps figures, web page with more pictures and and archive of computations: http://www.math.umass.edu/~sottile/pages/2l2s/
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206044
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206044
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/64229
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectComputational Geometry
dc.subjectCommutative Algebra
dc.subject13P10, 14N10, 14Q15, 51N20, 68U05
dc.titleCommon transversals and tangents to two lines and two quadrics in P^3
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