nLab hyperplane

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By a hyperplane one usually means an affine or linear subspace of an affine space or linear space, respectively, typically required to be a positive dimension and codimension and often required to have codimension = 1.

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In the archetypical example the ambient space is the time-honored Euclidean/Cartesian space 3\mathbb{R}^3 and a hyperplane of codimension 1 is an ordinary plane.

More sophisticated examples arise for instance in the discussion of configuration spaces of points in a Cartesian space E= dE = \mathbb{R}^d, where hyperplanes in E nE^n given by {(x 1,,x n)E n|x i=x j}\big\{ (\vec x_1, \cdots, \vec x_n) \,\in\, E^n \;\big\vert\; \vec x_i = \vec x_j \big\} reflect the subspaces where positions of a given pair of points coincide. This leads to discussion of arrangements of hyperplanes and their complements, see also at Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation the references on twisted cohomology of configuration spaces of points.

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