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6. But the equation
n = f ^DH+ADU,
which is an identity in regard to (X, Y, Z), gives
7) P — 2.-2 H
l ' F H 1 ’
d 2 P = Z~d 2 H + Ad 2 U,
Off-
8 s P = |ia j if + A9»Ei;
and substituting these values, the foregoing equation becomes
2 (0/ + lQdfo + 100^03 +150 1 0 2 2 ) U
+ (50 4 Ud,H +1003Ud,H+ 100, Ud 3 H) f 4 + A. 20d 2 Ud 3 U= 0;
X1
or putting for A its value, = (— 3il# + 4 X F), and multiplying by §# 2 this is
9# 2 (0! 5 + 1004*0, + 1O0 1 2 03 + 15040, 3 ) U
+ 15# (d i Ud 1 H+ 2d 3 Ud 2 H+ 20 2 Ud 3 H)
+ ~ (— 30# + 4 A F). 1O0 2 Ud 3 U=0,
which is, in its original or unreduced form, the condition for a sextactic point.
Article Nos. 7 and 8.—Notations and Remarks.
7. Writing, as in my former memoir, A, B, G for the first differential coefficients
of U, we have Bv — Gy, GX — Av, Ay, — BX for the values of dx, dy,- dz, and instead
of the symbol D used in my former memoir, I use indifferently the original symbol 0 1}
or write instead thereof 0, to denote the resulting value
04 (= 0) = (Bv - Gy) d x + (GX -Av)d y + (Ay. - BX) d z ,
and I remark here that for any function whatever il, we have
0il = A, B, G
X , y, , v
d x iì, dyi1, 0*0
= Jac. (U, S-, il),
where S- = Xx + yy + vz. I write, as in the former memoir,
= (21, 33, 6, % @, %JX, y, ,) 2 ;
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