Tangent segments in Minkowski planes

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Authors Senlin Wu

Publication date 28 February 2008

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/129656, http://www.emis.de/journals/BAG/vol.49/no.1/9.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Birkhoff orthogonalityBusemann angular bisectorGlogovskij angular bisectorJames orthogonalityMinkowski planenormed planeRadon plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Inner product spaces and their generalizations, Hilbert spaces (46C99) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Review text

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.

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• Minkowski Geometry—Some Concepts and Recent Developments
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• Minimum chords in Minkowski planes
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