(1) Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, D.F. 04510, Mexico
Abstract:
The topological manifolds arising from configurations of points in the realand complex projective lines are classified. Their topology andcombinatorics are described for the real case. A general setting for thestudy of the spaces of configurations of flats is established and aprojective duality among them is proved in its full generality.