Reciprocity (projective geometry)

Reciprocity (projective geometry)

A "reciprocity" is a collineation from a projective space onto its dual space, taking points to hyperplanes (and vice versa) and preserving incidence.

If it can be represented as a homography, it is called a correlation.


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