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Geometry Definition

Cospherical points

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Definition

Let (X,d)(X, d) be a metric space and let S⊆XS \subseteq X be a set of points. The set SS is cospherical if there are a point c∈Xc \in X and a real number rr such that d(x,c)=rd(x, c) = r for every x∈Sx \in S. That is, SS is contained in the sphere with centre cc and radius rr.

Remarks

This is the form of Mathlib's EuclideanGeometry.Cospherical. In the Euclidean plane, cospherical points are the same as concyclic points. In ℝn\R^n, any n+1n + 1 affinely independent points are cospherical, and their sphere is the circumsphere of the simplex they span.

Example: the eight vertices (±1,±1,±1)(\pm 1, \pm 1, \pm 1) of a cube in ℝ3\R^3 are cospherical. Each lies at distance 3\sqrt 3 from c=(0,0,0)c = (0, 0, 0).

Non-example: the points (0,0)(0, 0), (1,0)(1, 0), (2,0)(2, 0) of ℝ2\R^2 are not cospherical. A point equidistant from the first two has xx-coordinate 1/21/2, and a point equidistant from the last two has xx-coordinate 3/23/2, so no centre exists.

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