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Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 147-151 (2008)

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Tangent segments in Minkowski planes

Senlin Wu

Faculty of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany

Abstract: A Minkowski plane is Euclidean iff the two tangent segments from any exterior point to the unit circle have the same length.

Keywords: Birkhoff orthogonality, Busemann angular bisector, Glogovskij angular bisector, James orthogonality, Minkowski plane, normed plane, Radon plane

Classification (MSC2000): 52A10, 46B20, 46C99, 51M04

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