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In geometry, a hyperplane of an n-dimensional space V is a subspace of dimension n − 1, or equivalently, of codimension 1 in V.The space V may be a Euclidean space or more generally an affine space, or a vector space or a projective space, and the notion of hyperplane varies correspondingly since the definition of subspace differs in these settings; in all cases however, any hyperplane can ...
The (closed) set of points P between two distinct, parallel hyperplanes in R n is called a plank, and the distance between the two hyperplanes is called the width of the plank, w(P). Tarski conjectured that if a convex body C of minimal width w ( C ) was covered by a collection of planks, then the sum of the widths of those planks must be at ...
A plane duality is a map from a projective plane C = (P, L, I) to its dual plane C ∗ = (L, P, I ∗) (see § Principle of duality above) which preserves incidence. That is, a plane duality σ will map points to lines and lines to points (P σ = L and L σ = P) in such a way that if a point Q is on a line m (denoted by Q I m) then Q I m ⇔ m ...
In geometry and combinatorics, an arrangement of hyperplanes is an arrangement of a finite set A of hyperplanes in a linear, affine, or projective space S.Questions about a hyperplane arrangement A generally concern geometrical, topological, or other properties of the complement, M(A), which is the set that remains when the hyperplanes are removed from the whole space.
In mathematics, a hyperplane section of a subset X of projective space P n is the intersection of X with some hyperplane H.In other words, we look at the subset X H of those elements x of X that satisfy the single linear condition L = 0 defining H as a linear subspace.
In geometry, the hyperplane separation theorem is a theorem about disjoint convex sets in n-dimensional Euclidean space.There are several rather similar versions. In one version of the theorem, if both these sets are closed and at least one of them is compact, then there is a hyperplane in between them and even two parallel hyperplanes in between them separated by a gap.
A pair of non-parallel affine hyperplanes intersect at an affine subspace of dimension n − 2, but a parallel pair of affine hyperplanes intersect at a projective subspace of the ideal hyperplane (the intersection lies on the ideal hyperplane). Thus, parallel hyperplanes, which did not meet in the affine space, intersect in the projective ...
In geometry, space partitioning is the process of dividing an entire space (usually a Euclidean space) into two or more disjoint subsets (see also partition of a set). In other words, space partitioning divides a space into non-overlapping regions. Any point in the space can then be identified to lie in exactly one of the regions.