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The Perpendicular Bisector Construction in $n$-dimensional Euclidean and Non-euclidean Geometries

Metric Geometry 2012-03-30 v1

Abstract

The "Perpendicular Bisectors Construction" is a natural way to seek a replacement for the circumcenter of a noncyclic quadrilateral in the plane. In this paper, we generalize this iterative construction to a construction on polytopes with nn vertices in (n2)(n-2)-dimensional Euclidean, Hyperbolic and Elliptic geometries. We then show that a number of nice properties concerning this iterative construction continue to hold in these geometries. We also introduce an analogue of the isoptic point of a quadrilateral, which is the limit point of the Perpendicular Bisectors Construction, in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} and prove some of its properties.

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@article{arxiv.1203.6429,
  title  = {The Perpendicular Bisector Construction in $n$-dimensional Euclidean and Non-euclidean Geometries},
  author = {Emmanuel Tsukerman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6429},
  year   = {2012}
}

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13 pages, 7 figures