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Apollonian sets in taxicab geometry

Metric Geometry 2018-09-21 v1

Abstract

Fix two points pp and qq in the plane and a positive number k1k \neq 1. A result credited to Apollonius of Perga states that the set of points xx that satisfy d(x,p)/d(x,q)=kd(x, p)/d(x, q) = k forms a circle. In this paper we study the analogous set in taxicab geometry. We find that while Apollonian sets are not taxicab circles, more complicated Apollonian sets can be characterized in terms of simpler ones.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.07487,
  title  = {Apollonian sets in taxicab geometry},
  author = {Eric Bahuaud and Shana Crawford and Aaron Fish and Dylan Helliwell and Anna Miller and Freddy Nungaray and Suki Shergill and Julian Tiffay and Nico Velez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07487},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures

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