On the sum of the angles between three vectors
Metric Geometry
2025-09-23 v3
Abstract
For any three nonzero vectors in , we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the sum of the three pairwise angles between these vectors to equal . As an easy consequence of this, a proof of Euclid's theorem that the sum of the interior angles of any triangle is is provided. So, the main result of this note can be considered a generalization of Euclid's theorem. To a large extent, the consideration is reduced almost immediately to a choice for the sum of three related angles among the three integer multiples of . The rest of the consideration concerns only various betweenness relations.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.04759,
title = {On the sum of the angles between three vectors},
author = {Iosif Pinelis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04759},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages; slight improvement of the proof of Property (iii); fixed a reference to [2]