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Euclidean, hyperbolic, discrete, convex, coarse geometry, metric spaces, comparisons in Riemannian geometry, symmetric spaces.

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When shorter means smaller?

An incomplete answer; but perhaps it helps to rephrase the problem as below. The reason the round circle does have this property is that without loss of generality, the map $f$ fixes the origin; and …
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When shorter means smaller?

Another tact; consider the set of foldings of our convex shape. Since the fold axis partitions the perimeter into two parts, and by convexity both have finite length, so one of them is at least half …
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Side-Angle-Side Congruence and the Parallel Postulate

On reflection, SAS tells me that Euclidean geometry has a strong semi-local homogeneity, in that every neighborhood of every point is isotropically isomorphic with some neighborhood of any other point …
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Subset of the plane that intersects every line exactly twice

By AC, choose a cardinal well-ordering of the lines in in the plane and any well-ordering of all the points. We proceed by transfinite induction. Suppose $A_l$ is a set of points, no three colinear, …
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