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Re: Re: need mathematica's help for exploring a certain type of mapping

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• Subject: [mg68593] Re: [mg68578] Re: need mathematica's help for exploring a certain type of mapping
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Unless I misunderstand what you say, it is not possible that a map R^3 
-> R^2 could be an isometry.  After all, such a map would be a 
homeomorphism -- a topological embedding of R^3 into R^2.  As such, the 
map would preserve topological dimension.  But dim(R^3) = 3 whereas 
dim(S) <= 2 for every subspace of R^2.

Nabeel Butt wrote:
> Dear David,
>              Keep the metric Eucilidean(easy to visualise in mathematica).
>     Also,i want a map that preserves unit distances but not necessarily all
> distances.
>    It may happen that a mapping from R^2->R^3 that preserves unit distances
> preserves all distances and hence,is an isometry.
>    It is proven in mathematical literature that a unit preserving map from
> R^3->R^2 is an isometry.
>    However, for f:R^2->R^3 this is still an open question.

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  • Re: need mathematica's help for exploring a certain type of mapping
    • From: "Nabeel Butt" <nabeel.butt@gmail.com>