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Axioms for Absolute Geometry. III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. F. Rigby*
Affiliation:
University College, Cardiff, Wales
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This paper is a continuation of [1; 2]. In [2], I stated that I had been unable to construct examples of planes satisfying various conditions. Some of the examples that I have since constructed are given below. A discussion of one-dimensional absolute geometries, with examples, will be given in a separate paper. The relevant parts of [1] and [2] are [1, § 1, § 2 up to 2.4; 2, § 2]. We shall use the notation and terminology of [1; 2]; the axioms Cl*-C4* and C4** (referred to below) can all be found in [1].

We shall show here that spaces of dimension greater than 1 exist, both Archimedean and non-Archimedean, satisfying Cl*-C4*, in which not all points are isometric, and that C4** does not follow from Cl*-C4* in non- Archimedean geometries of dimension greater than 1.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

References

1. Rigby, J. F., Axioms for absolute geometry, Can. J. Math. 20 (1968), 158181.Google Scholar
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