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The number of transversals to line segments in R3

Hervé Brönnimann, Hazel Everett, Sylvain Lazard, Frank Sottile, Sue Whitesides

math.MGarXiv:math/0306401

Abstract

We completely describe the structure of the connected components of transversals to a collection of n line segments in R3. We show that n>2 arbitrary line segments in R3 admit 0, 1, ..., n or infinitely many line transversals. In the latter case, the transversals form up to n connected components.

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