TITLE:
Some Geometric Properties of the m-Möbius Transformations
AUTHORS:
Dorin Ghisa
KEYWORDS:
Möbius Transformation, Conformal Mapping, Symmetry with Respect to a Circle, Symmetry Principle
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Pure Mathematics,
Vol.12 No.3,
March
17,
2022
ABSTRACT: Möbius transformations, which are one-to-one mappings of onto have remarkable geometric properties susceptible to be visualized by drawing pictures. Not the same thing can be said about m-Möbius transformations fm mapping onto . Even for the simplest entity, the pre-image by fm of a unique point, there is no way of visualization. Pre-images by fm of figures from C are like ghost figures in Cm. This paper is about handling those ghost figures. We succeeded in doing it and proving theorems about them by using their projections onto the coordinate planes. The most important achievement is the proof in that context of a theorem similar to the symmetry principle for Möbius transformations. It is like saying that the images by m-Möbius transformations of symmetric ghost points with respect to ghost circles are symmetric points with respect to the image circles. Vectors in Cm are well known and vector calculus in Cm is familiar, yet the pre-imageby fm of a vector from C is a different entity which materializes by projections into vectors in the coordinate planes. In this paper, we study the interface between those entities and the vectors in Cm. Finally, we have shown that the uniqueness theorem for Möbius transformations and the property of preserving the cross-ratio of four points by those transformations translate into similar theorems for m-Möbius transformations.