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A. Old pieces

A..1 Digression (was in introduction)

In this context, carefully stated trans-typing are certainly useful, but not all trans-typing in all circumstances. For example, wording $ f\left(z\right)=a\, z+b$ as "integral linear" because transformations $ h\left(z\right)=\left(a\, z+b\right)/\left(c\, z+d\right)$ have been worded as "linear" seems misleading. Neither $ h\left(z_{1}+z_{2}\right)=h\left(z_{1}\right)+h\left(z_{2}\right)$ nor $ f\left(z_{1}+z_{2}\right)=f\left(z_{1}\right)+f\left(z_{2}\right)$ are identities. If you want to speak at elementary level, $ f$ is a similitude and $ h$ an homography. If you want to speak at an upper level, $ h$ belongs to $ \mathbb{P_{\mathrm{\mathbb{C}}}GL\left(C^{\mathrm{2}}\right)}$ acting over $ \mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{C}^{2}$ and $ f$ belongs to the subgroup fixing $ \infty\in\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{C}^{2}$.

Doing otherwise will lead to define $ 3\, A_{1}$ in $ \mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{R}}\mathbb{R}^{4}$ by $ \left(3a_{1},3b_{1},3c_{1},d_{1}\right)$ and pursue by defining $ 3A_{1}+2A_{2}$ by $ \left(3a_{1}+2a_{2},\,3b_{1}+2b_{2},\,3c_{1}+2c_{2},\, d_{1}+d_{2}\right)$. But the later is an unspecified point of the projective line through $ A_{1}$and $ A_{2}$ that depends on the representations in $ \mathbb{R}^{4}$ chosen for the points. In other words, it is better to use a language that awakens the good reflexes in everyone's minds.

To fulfill these requirements, we will use the following notations..


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