The non-subtransitive cyclic-quadrilateral conjecture

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A cyclic polygon is a polygon whose vertices lie on a common circle. A finite set is subtransitive if it is congruent to a subset of a finite transitive set.

Cyclic-quadrilateral conjecture. There exists a cyclic quadrilateral that is not subtransitive.

The paper proves that almost every cyclic 1616-gon is not subtransitive, but does not give an explicit example. It therefore asks for an explicit non-subtransitive cyclic polygon and conjectures that four vertices already suffice.

References

Primary source

Imre Leader, Paul A. Russell and Mark Walters, “Transitive Sets in Euclidean Ramsey Theory”, arXiv:1012.1350 (2010).

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