A continuous movement version of the Banach—Tarski paradox: A solution to de Groot's Problem
Wilson, Trevor M.
J. Symbolic Logic, Tome 70 (2005) no. 1, p. 946-952 / Harvested from Project Euclid
In 1924 Banach and Tarski demonstrated the existence of a paradoxical decomposition of the 3-ball B, i.e., a piecewise isometry from B onto two copies of B. This article answers a question of de Groot from 1958 by showing that there is a paradoxical decomposition of B in which the pieces move continuously while remaining disjoint to yield two copies of B. More generally, we show that if n ≥ 2, any two bounded sets in 𝑹ⁿ that are equidecomposable with proper isometries are continuously equidecomposable in this sense.
Publié le : 2005-09-14
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Wilson, Trevor M. A continuous movement version of the Banach—Tarski paradox: A solution to de Groot's Problem. J. Symbolic Logic, Tome 70 (2005) no. 1, pp.  946-952. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1122038921/