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Rigid subsets in Euclidean and Hilbert spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Ludvik Janos
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle, Newcastle N.S.W. 2308, Australia
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Abstract

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A subset Y of a metric space (X, p) is called rigid if all the distances p(y1, y2) between points y1, y2 ∈ Y in Y are mutually different. The main purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of dense rigid subsets of cardinality c in Euclidean spaces En and in the separable Hilbert space l2. Some applications to abstract point set geometries are given and the connection with the theory of dimension is discussed.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1975

References

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