Translation-like isoptic surfaces and angle sums of translation triangles in Nil geometry

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Abstract: After having investigated the geodesic and translation triangles and their angle sums in SOL and SLR geometries we consider the analogous problem in NIL space that is one of the eight 3-dimensional Thurston geometries. We analyze the interior angle sums of translation triangles in NIL geometry and we provide a new approach to prove that it can be larger than or equal to pi. Moreover, for the first time in non-constant curvature Thurston geometries we have developed a procedure for determining the equations of NIL isoptic surfaces of translation-like segments and as a special case of this we examine the NIL translation-like Thales sphere, which we call {it Thaloid}. In our work we will use the projective model of NIL described by E. Moln'ar in cite{M97}.


After various papers on geodesic and translation triangles in some of Thurston's eight 3-dimensional geometries, the authors focus in the present paper on the case of the nilpotent geometry ``Nil associated to the Heisenberg group. They provide a new approach to prove that the angle sums of translation triangles in the Nil-geometry is larger than or equal to \(\pi\), determining also when the angle sum is exactly \(\pi\). From the abstract: ``Moreover, for the first time in non-constant-curvature Thurston geometries we have developed a procedure for determining the equations of Nil isoptic surfaces of translation-like segments, and as a special case of this we examine the Nil translation-like Thales sphere which we call \textit{Thaloid}. A general motivation for this is to study some classical geometric concepts for the 3-dimensional geometries of non-constant curvature.



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