Publication:4306891

zbMath0819.51002MaRDI QIDQ4306891

Walter Benz

Publication date: 21 September 1994

zbMATH Keywords

affine geometry; spherical geometry; functional equations; hyperbolic geometry; harmonic mappings; projective geometry; Euclidean geometry; Minkowski geometry; birational transformations; ring geometry; Möbius geometry; collineations; Laguerre geometry; Lie geometry; space-time geometries; elliptic geometry; Einstein's cylinder universe; Erlangen programme; volume-preserving transformations; Beckman-Quarles type theorems; line geometries; \(n\)-point invariants; Alexandrov-type theorems; angle-preserving transformations; De Sitter's world; defining and invariant functions; defining and invariant notions; distance-preserving transformations; higher-dimensional real chain geometries; null-line preserving transformations; proportion geometry; Weierstraß coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

51M10: Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations

83A05: Special relativity

51M25: Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry

51M04: Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries

51M05: Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations

51N20: Euclidean analytic geometry

51P05: Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics

51N10: Affine analytic geometry

51N15: Projective analytic geometry

51M09: Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries

51N30: Geometry of classical groups

51-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to geometry

51N25: Analytic geometry with other transformation groups

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