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Starting from a general absolute plane A = (P, L, α, ≡) in the sense of Karzel et al. (Einführung in die Geometrie, p. 96, 1973), Karzel and Marchi introduced the notion of a Lambert–Saccheri quadrangle (L-S quadrangle) in Karzel and Marchi (Le Matematiche LXI:27–36, 2006): A quadruple (a, b, c, d) of points of P, no three collinear, is a L-S quadrangle, if \({\overline{a,d}\bot\overline{a,b}\bot\overline{b,c}\bot\overline{c,d}}\). Denoting the foot of a on the line \({\overline{c, d}}\) with \({a^{\prime}=\{a\bot\overline{c,d}\}\cap \overline{c,d}}\), the L-S quadrangle (a, b, c, d) is called rectangle, hyperbolic or elliptic quadrangle if \({a^{\prime}=d,\; a^{\prime}\,{\in}\, ]c,d[}\) or\({a^{\prime}\,{\notin}\, ]c,d[\cup \{d\}}\) respectively. Let LS be the set of all L-S quadrangles and LS r , LS h or LS e the subset of all rectangles, hyperbolic or elliptic L-S quadrangles respectively. In Karzel and Marchi (Le Matematiche LXI:27–36, 2006) it was claimed that either LS = LS r or LS = LS h or LS = LS e . To this classification we add five further classifications of general absolute planes by using “distance” [defined in Karzel and Marchi (Discrete Math 308:220–230, 2008)] or the notions of “interior” and “exterior” angle, introduced in Karzel et al. (Resultate Math 51:61–71, 2007) and considering besides Lambert–Saccheri quadrangles, also triangles in particular right-angled triangles. For Lambert–Saccheri quadrangles (a, b, c, d) the relations between distances of the diagonal points (a, c) and (b, d) or between the “midpoint” \({o:=\overline{a,c}\cap\overline{b,d}}\), and the corner points a, b, c, d give us possibilities for complete characterizations. Using triangles (a, b, c) and denoting by m and n the midpoints of (a, b) and (a, c) we classify the absolute planes by the relations between the distances |b, c| and 2|m, n|. All our main results are summarized at the end of the introduction.
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Dedicated to Walter Benz on the occasion of his 80th birthday
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Rostamzadeh, M., Taherian, SG. On Characterization of Absolute Geometries. Results. Math. 63, 171–182 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-011-0180-3
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