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Characterizing circles by a convex combinatorial property

Metric Geometry 2017-07-25 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let K0K_0 be a compact convex subset of the plane R2\mathbb R^2, and assume that K1R2K_1\subseteq \mathbb R^2 is similar to K0K_0, that is, K1K_1 is the image of K0K_0 with respect to a similarity transformation R2R2\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb R^2. Kira Adaricheva and Madina Bolat have recently proved that if K0K_0 is a disk and both K0K_0 and K1K_1 are included in a triangle with vertices A0A_0, A1A_1, and A2A_2, then there exist a j{0,1,2}j\in \{0,1,2\} and a k{0,1}k\in\{0,1\} such that K1kK_{1-k} is included in the convex hull of Kk({A0,A1,A2}{Aj})K_k\cup(\{A_0,A_1, A_2\}\setminus\{A_j\}). 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.

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@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

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