Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding

Eastwood, Michael

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Uniqueness of the stereographic embedding

Date

2014

Authors

Eastwood, Michael

Publisher

Masarykova Universita

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.