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Lines Tangent to 2n-2 spheres in Rn

Frank Sottile, Thorsten Theobald

math.AGarXiv:math/0105180

Abstract

We show that there are 3 · 2(n-1) complex common tangent lines to 2n-2 general spheres in Rn and that there is a choice of spheres with all common tangents real.

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