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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/3/c/solution
Past exam of the short options course of the University of Oxford 2015 3 c Solution by
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Choose three distinct projective points . Their images under the injective map are distinct. Sharp triple transitivity gives a projective transformation agreeing with on these three points. The map fixes and preserves their cross-ratios.
For any other projective point , invariance givesLet normalize to . By part (b), the left side is and the right side is . Since is a bijection, . It fixes the original three points too, so is the identity map everywhere. ThereforeNo continuity or prior surjectivity assumption was needed. This is the rigidity assertion that cross-ratio preserving maps are projective.
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