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Rigidity of a scalene triangle

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Area of mathematics Geometry and topology Differential geometry Riemannian geometry Isometry Euclidean isometry
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The vertex set of a triangle with three distinct side lengths has trivial setwise stabilizer subgroup in the plane isometry group. Each vertex is characterized by the unordered pair of lengths of its incident edges, so a setwise-preserving Euclidean isometry fixes every vertex. An isometry fixing three noncollinear plane points is the identity: squared Euclidean distances to them determine every other point, since subtracting two of the Euclidean distance equations gives two independent linear equations. For example, (0,0),(1,0),(0,2) have side lengths 1,2,5​.

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