On the non-generic Tzitzeica-Johnson's Configuration

Wladimir G. Boskoff; Şerban Bărcănescu; Alexandru Bobe

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On the non-generic Tzitzeica-Johnson's Configuration

Analele ştiinţifice ale Universităţii "Ovidius" Constanţa. Seria Matematică

Volume 20 (2012): Issue 2 (June 2012)

By: Wladimir G. Boskoff, Şerban Bărcănescu and Alexandru Bobe

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|May 2013

Abstract

Working in the context of Hilbert's axiomatic system, we prove that the Tzitzeica-Johnson configuration has sense in neutral geometry. The elements of a Tzitzeica-Johnson configuration allow us to analyse the Euclidean or the non-Euclidean character of the metric of the plane

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