Sets That Contain Their Circle Centers
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DOI10.1080/07468342.2008.11922316zbMATH Open1293.97041arXivmath/0703860OpenAlexW1523282200WikidataQ130171412 ScholiaQ130171412MaRDI QIDQ3601736FDOQ3601736
Authors: Greg Martin 
Publication date: 11 February 2009
Published in: The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Say that a subset S of the plane is a "circle-center set" if S is not a subset of a line, and whenever we choose three noncollinear points from S, the center of the unique circle through those three points is also an element of S. A problem appearing on the Macalester College Problem of the Week website was to prove that a finite set of points in the plane, no three lying on a common line, cannot be a circle-center set. Various solutions to this problem that did not use the full strength of the hypotheses appeared, and the conjecture was subsequently made that every circle-center set is unbounded. In this article, we prove a stronger assertion, namely that every circle-center set is dense in the plane, or equivalently that the only closed circle-center set is the entire plane. Along the way we show connections between our geometrical method of proof and number theory, real analysis, and topology.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703860
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