The betweenness relation distinguishes non-similar pairs of concentric circles
Abstract
Two subsets of the plane are betweenness isomorphic if there is a bijection such that, for every , the point lies on the line segment connecting and if and only if lies on the line segment connecting and . In general, it is quite difficult to tell whether two given subsets of the plane are betweenness isomorphic. We concentrate on the case when the sets belong to the family of unions of pairs of concentric circles in the plane. We prove that are betweenness isomorphic if and only if they are similar. In particular, there are continuum many betweenness isomorphism classes in , and each of these classes consists exactly of all scaled translations of an arbitrary representative of the class. Furthermore, we show that every betweenness isomorphism between sets is exactly the restriction of a scaled isometry of the plane.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.02495,
title = {The betweenness relation distinguishes non-similar pairs of concentric circles},
author = {Martin Doležal and Jan Kolář and Janusz Morawiec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02495},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
22 pages with 4 figures