Ptolemy circles and Ptolemy segments

DOI10.1007/S00013-012-0398-7MaRDI QIDQ438608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Foertsch, Viktor Schroeder

Publication date 31 July 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/71199/11/ZORA_NL_71199.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Ptolemy metric space\(CAT(-1)\)-spacePtolemy circlePtolemy's theoremMöbius homeomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70) Topological geometries on manifolds (51H20) Möbius geometries (51B10)

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