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A paradoxical decomposition of the real line

Group Theory 2015-11-05 v2

Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate how to partition the real number line into four subsets which may be reassembled, via "piecewise rigid functions" that preserve Lebesgue measure, into two copies of the line. We then employ a similar process to split the line into 2k2k pieces that yield kk copies of the line, or even into countably many subsets to obtain countably many copies of R\mathbb{R}.

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@article{arxiv.1511.01019,
  title  = {A paradoxical decomposition of the real line},
  author = {Shelley Kandola and Sam Vandervelde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.01019},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures