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From: John Karl
Date: 2010 Mar 16, 19:12 -0700
Robin,
I'm looking at your 1984 Jour Royal Astron Soc article on complex analysis applied to spherical geometry and got only to section 2.1 without a question.
I'm confused over the Z* versus the Z-bar notation, since they're both commonly used for the complex conjugate. Obviously they don't both mean the same thing, so I'm not sure what's what.
Also, it seems to me that the pole of a point on the sphere described by Z on the complex plane would be Z-pole = 1/Z. That is, Z-pole =(1/r) exp(-i phi), since Z = r exp(+i phi).
Can you help??
John Karl
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