On the theorem of the three perpendiculars

DOI10.4171/EM/277MaRDI QIDQ2634600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jin-Ichi Itoh, Joël Rouyer, Costin Vîlcu

Publication date 17 February 2016

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1577, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?vol=70&iss=2&issn=0013-6018&rank=5

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean spacehyperbolic geometryperpendicularspherical geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10)

Abstract: We show that the theorem of the three perpendiculars holds in any n-dimensional space form.

Review text

In the paper under review, the authors consider the following well-known elementary theorem, the so-called theorem of the three perpendiculars: Assume the point \(x\) is outside the plane \(\Pi\) and the line \(\Lambda\) is included in \(\Pi\); if \(xy\) is orthogonal to \(\Pi\), with \(y \in \Pi \setminus \Lambda \), and \(yz\) is orthogonal to \(\Lambda\), with \(z \in\Lambda\), then \(xz\) is orthogonal to \(\Lambda\). In fact, they give two new proofs for it also in the spherical and hyperbolic spaces using their standard models.

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