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Inversive geometry
In geometry, inversive geometry is the study of those properties of figures that are preserved by a generalization of a type of transformation of the Euclidean plane, called inversion. These transformations preserve angles and map generalized circles into generalized circles, where a generalized circle means either a circle or a line (loosely speaking, a circle with infinite radius). Many difficult problems in geometry become much more tractable when an inversion is applied.
The inverse, with respect to the red circle, of a circle going through O (blue) is a line not going through O (green), and vice versa.
The inverse, with respect to the red circle, of a circle not going through O (blue) is a circle not going through O (green), and vice versa.
Inversion with respect to a circle does not map the center of the circle to the center of its image
Relation to Erlangen program
According to Coxeter,[8] the transformation by inversion in circle was invented by L. I. Magnus in 1831. Since then this mapping has become an avenue to higher mathematics. Through some steps of application of the circle inversion map, a student of transformation geometry soon appreciates the significance of Felix Klein’s Erlangen program, an outgrowth of certain models of hyperbolic geometry
Dilations
The combination of two inversions in concentric circles results in a similarity, homothetic transformation, or dilation characterized by the ratio of the circle radii.
Reciprocation
When a point in the plane is interpreted as a complex number , with complex conjugate , then the reciprocal of z is . Consequently, the algebraic form of the inversion in a unit circle is given by where:
- .
Reciprocation is key in transformation theory as a generator of the Möbius group. The other generators are translation and rotation, both familiar through physical manipulations in the ambient 3-space. Introduction of reciprocation (dependent upon circle inversion) is what produces the peculiar nature of Möbius geometry, which is sometimes identified with inversive geometry (of the Euclidean plane). However, inversive geometry is the larger study since it includes the raw inversion in a circle (not yet made, with conjugation, into reciprocation). Inversive geometry also includes the conjugation mapping. Neither conjugation nor inversion-in-a-circle are in the Möbius group since they are non-conformal (see below). Möbius group elements are analytic functions of the whole plane and so are necessarily conformal.
Transforming circles into circles
Consider, in the complex plane, the circle of radius
where without loss of generality, . Using the definition of inversion
it is straightforward to show that obeys the equation
Showing that the describes the circle of center and radius .
when , the circle transforms into the line parallel to the imaginary axis .
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