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Appell Transformation

A Homographic transformation

$\displaystyle x_1$ $\textstyle =$ $\displaystyle {ax+by+c\over a''x+b''y+c''}$  
$\displaystyle y_1$ $\textstyle =$ $\displaystyle {a'x+b'y+c'\over a''x+b''y+c''}$  

with $t_1$ substituted for $t$ according to

\begin{displaymath}
k\,dt_1={dt\over(a''x+b''y+c'')^2}.
\end{displaymath}


References

Hazewinkel, M. (Managing Ed.). Encyclopaedia of Mathematics: An Updated and Annotated Translation of the Soviet ``Mathematical Encyclopaedia.'' Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, pp. 210-211, 1988.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25