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Main Authors: Ivanova, Tatyana, Tinchev, Tinko
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10128
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author Ivanova, Tatyana
Tinchev, Tinko
author_facet Ivanova, Tatyana
Tinchev, Tinko
contents A. Tarski uses in his system for the elementary geometry only the primitive concept of point, and the two primitive relations betweenness and equidistance. Another approach is the relations to be on lines instead of points. W. Schwabhäuser and L. Szczerba showed that perpendicularity together with the ternary relation of co-punctuality are sufficient for dimension two, i.e. they may be used as a system of primitive relations for elementary plane Euclidean geometry. In this paper we give a complete axiomatization for the fragment of elementary plane Euclidean geometry based on perpendicularity alone. We show that this theory is not finitely axiomatizable, it is decidable and the complexity is PSPACE-complete. In contrast the complexity of elementary plane Euclidean geometry is exponential.
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spellingShingle The fragment of elementary plane Euclidean geometry based on perpendicularity alone with complexity PSPACE-complete
Ivanova, Tatyana
Tinchev, Tinko
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A. Tarski uses in his system for the elementary geometry only the primitive concept of point, and the two primitive relations betweenness and equidistance. Another approach is the relations to be on lines instead of points. W. Schwabhäuser and L. Szczerba showed that perpendicularity together with the ternary relation of co-punctuality are sufficient for dimension two, i.e. they may be used as a system of primitive relations for elementary plane Euclidean geometry. In this paper we give a complete axiomatization for the fragment of elementary plane Euclidean geometry based on perpendicularity alone. We show that this theory is not finitely axiomatizable, it is decidable and the complexity is PSPACE-complete. In contrast the complexity of elementary plane Euclidean geometry is exponential.
title The fragment of elementary plane Euclidean geometry based on perpendicularity alone with complexity PSPACE-complete
topic Logic
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10128