TOPICS
Search

Cayley Lines


The 20 Cayley lines each contain one of the 20 Steiner points and three of the 60 Kirkman points arising from the 60 Pascal lines of a hexagon inscribed in a conic. The Pascal lines intersect three at a time at the Steiner points and also three at a time at the Kirkman points. The 20 Cayley lines pass four at a time through 15 points known as Salmon points (Wells 1991). There is a dual relationship between the 20 Cayley lines and the 20 Steiner points.

CayleyLines

The figure above is the Levi graph of the 15 Salmon points and the 20 Cayley lines: a point vertex is joined to a line vertex exactly when the point lies on the line. It records the incidence structure rather than a projective realization of the lines themselves.


See also

Kirkman Points, Pascal Lines, Pascal's Theorem, Plücker Lines, Salmon Points, Steiner Points

Explore with Wolfram|Alpha

References

Johnson, R. A. Modern Geometry: An Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of the Triangle and the Circle. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 236-237, 1929.Salmon, G. "Notes: Pascal's Theorem, Art. 267" in A Treatise on Conic Sections, 6th ed. New York: Chelsea, pp. 379-382, 1960.Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. London, England: Penguin, p. 172, 1991.

Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha

Cayley Lines

Cite this as:

Weisstein, Eric W. "Cayley Lines." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CayleyLines.html

Subject classifications