Questions tagged [hypercone]

For questions related to hypercone (or spherical cone). It's a $4$D Euclidean space represented by the equation $x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}-w^{2}=0$.

In geometry, a hypercone (or spherical cone) is the figure in the $4$-dimensional Euclidean space represented by the equation $x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}-w^{2}=0$.

It is a quadric surface, and is one of the possible $3$-manifolds which are $4$-dimensional equivalents of the conical surface in $3$ dimensions. It is also named "spherical cone" because its intersections with hyperplanes perpendicular to the $w$-axis are spheres. A four-dimensional right hypercone can be thought of as a sphere which expands with time, starting its expansion from a single point source, such that the center of the expanding sphere remains fixed. An oblique hypercone would be a sphere which expands with time, again starting its expansion from a point source, but such that the center of the expanding sphere moves with a uniform velocity.

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Pappus centroid theorem and Hypercones.

The volume of a straight cone in $\mathbb R^3$ is usually find adding the circular sections orthogonal to the height. If the base has radius $R$ and the height is $h$ we have: $$ V_{C3}=\int_0^h \pi r^2 dz=\pi \int_0^h \frac{R^2}{h^2}z^2 dz=\pi…
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Finding the tangent hyperplane to a unit hypersphere in $n$ dimensions

Please forgive me if this has already been posted, although I could not find any specific question related enough to my problem (or it might be and I just lack the mathematical background to understand it is). Assume I have a unit sphere such that…
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Why Are Stratified Spaces Conical?

I am having trouble understanding the definition of a topologically stratified space as presented in Laurentiu Maxim's Intersection Homology & Perverse Sheaves: with Applications to Singularities (inserted below). In particular, the local normal…
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Project points onto 4D hypercone

Let $p \in \mathbb R^4$ be a point and let $C$ be the $4$-dimensional unit hypercone represented with the equation $x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = w^2$. Is there an elegant way (like a closed form solution) to project a point $p$ onto $p^* \in C $, where…
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