International Journal of
Physical Sciences

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Phys. Sci.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-1950
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPS
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2568

Full Length Research Paper

A characterization of the projective transformation

Yasemin Alagöz* and Ziya Soyuçok
Yildiz Technical University, Department of Mathematics, Davutpasa, 34210, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 04 December 2009
  •  Published: 31 January 2010

Abstract

We consider the transformations preserving the asymptotic directions of hypersurfaces in n-dimensional Euclidean space and we obtain the following characterization of the projective transformation: In n-dimensional Euclidean space, a transformation preserves the asymptotic directions of hypersurfaces if and only if it is the projective transformation.

 

Key words: Projective transformation, hypersurfaces, asymptotic directions.