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Duality of subanalytic sets

Abstract

We study the link between a compact hypersurface in $¶^{n+1}$ and the set of all its tangent planes. In this context, we identify $¶^{n+1}$ to the set of linear subspaces of codimension one by orthogonal complementarity. This gives rise to a kind of duality which has already been studied Bruce and Romerro-Fuster, and relates a hypersurface to the set of its tangent planes. But in these papers the dual, in this sense, of the set of tangent planes of a hypersurface was not defined and iteration of the procedure was not possible. Therefore we extend this type of duality to more general sets and achieve a procedure which can be iterated and gives in fact an involution.

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Francois Pointet. 1997-06-11. Duality of subanalytic sets. https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706007

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