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Collineations Preserving Betweenness (COBE)

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Euclidean Geometry and its Subgeometries

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A belineation is a bijection of a plane that preserves betweenness. This chapter shows that every belineation on a Pasch plane is a collineation, and explores the interactions between belineations and segments, rays, lines, sides of a line, angles, and triangles.

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    We hope the reader is not offended by this rather odd name; believe it or not, we bandied about some other names that were even stranger—such as betweeneation.

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Specht, E.J., Jones, H.T., Calkins, K.G., Rhoads, D.H. (2015). Collineations Preserving Betweenness (COBE). In: Euclidean Geometry and its Subgeometries. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23775-6_7

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