The Use of Shears to Construct Paradoxes in $R^2

The Use of Shears to Construct Paradoxes in $R^2

It is shown that the addition of a certain shear transformation to the planar isometry group is sufficient to allow a Banach-Tarski type paradox to be constructed in $\mathbf{R}^2$. This paradox is then combined with a result of Rosenblatt to obtain a characterization of two-dimensional Lebesgue mea...

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Uniqueness
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