On points with arbitrarily assigned mutual distances
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Extract
Let SsTt denote a space of s + t dimensions with the property that the square of the distance between any two points
is of the form
where s of the ε's are equal to + 1 and t of them to — 1.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1934 , pp. 1 - 3
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1934
References
* Cf. Coxeter, , Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 29 (1933), 3, 4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
* It is worth noticing that the B's, unlike the A's, are necessarily independent.
† This is the accurate statement of the remark made in parentheses in the first paragraph of the paper previously cited.
* Sommerville, D. M. Y., Geometry of n dimensions (London, 1929), 124–125.Google Scholar
† Cf. Wald, A., Ergebnisse eines mathematisches Kolloquiums, 5 (1932/1933), 36.Google Scholar His results are equivalent to ours if it is assumed that we can always find, in some complex metric space, n + 1 points with arbitrarily assigned mutual distances.
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