Tangent segments in Minkowski planes (Q2473583)

In the paper it is proved that the circle is the only closed convex curve in the Euclidean plane with the property that its two tangent segments from any exterior point have equal lengths. Moreover, if in a two-dimensional normed space \(\mathbb{M}\) (also called a Minkowski plane) for any exterior point \(x\) with respect to the unit circle \(\mathcal{C}\) of \(\mathbb{M}\) the lengths of the two tangent segments from \(x\) to \(\mathcal{C}\), measured in the norm, are equal, then the plane \(\mathbb{M}\) is Euclidean.