Characterizing circles by a convex combinatorial property
Metric Geometry
2017-07-25 v4 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be a compact convex subset of the plane , and assume that is similar to , that is, is the image of with respect to a similarity transformation . Kira Adaricheva and Madina Bolat have recently proved that if is a disk and both and are included in a triangle with vertices , , and , then there exist a and a such that is included in the convex hull of . Here we prove that this property characterizes disks among compact convex subsets of the plane. Actually, we prove even more since we replace "similar" by "isometric" (also called "congruent"). Circles are the boundaries of disks, so our result also gives a characterization of circles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.09331,
title = {Characterizing circles by a convex combinatorial property},
author = {Gábor Czédli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09331},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
18 pages, 15 figures