In this chapter, we give Lie’s construction of the space of spheres and define the important notions of oriented contact and parabolic pencils of spheres. This leads ultimately to a bijective correspondence between the manifold of contact elements on the sphere Sn and the manifold Λ2n−1 of projective lines on the Lie quadric.
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(2008). Lie Sphere Geometry. In: Lie Sphere Geometry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74656-2_2
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