A characterization of motions as bijections preserving inradius or circumradius 1

DOI10.1007/BF01298927MaRDI QIDQ1069126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors June A. Lester

Publication date 1986

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/178270

zbMATH Keywords

Beckman-Quarles theorembijection of the Euclidean planecircumradiusEuclidean motioninradius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20)

Review text

The following two theorems are proven. Let \(x\to \bar x\) be a bijection of the Euclidean plane such that if a, b and c are vertices of a triangle of circumradius 1 (inradius 1), then so are \(\bar a,\) \(\bar b\) and \(\bar c.\) Then the bijection must be a Euclidean motion.

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