A parabola P in the plane has the nice property that the image of P under any affine transformation is similar to P itself.
Which other subsets of the plane have this property?
I wondered aloud about this on Twitter, where Zeno Rogue gave some additional examples:
- The complement of a parabola;
- One connected component of the complement of a parabola;
There are also “degenerate” examples that in some sense vary in only one dimension:
- Any subset of a line;
- Any superset of the complement of a line;
- An open half-plane together with any subset of its boundary;
- The product of a line with any subset of a line.
Are there other examples? I’m especially interested in examples that don’t fall into the degenerate category.