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Generalized Schwarzian derivatives for generalized fractional linear transformations

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia

Abstract

Generalizations of the classical Schwarzian derivative of complex analysis have been proposed by Osgood and Stowe [12, 13], Carne [5], and Ahlfors [3]. We present another generalization of the Schwarzian derivative over vector spaces.

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Annales Polonici Mathematici
1992/57/1
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Pages:
29-44
Main language of publication
English
Received
1990-11-20
Published
1992
Exact and natural sciences