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Say a set of points is convex position if no point is contained in the convex hull of the others. I am trying to grasp which Mobius Transforms will modify this property.

For simplicity I considered transforms of the form: $f(z) = \frac{1}{z-d}$

So I wrote a program that would take a set of points that were not convex and marked in green the values of $d$ which changed this:

scatter plot of points that change convexity

And I wrote a program that would take a set of points that were convex in and mark in green the values of $d$ that changed this.

scatter plot of points that change convexity

It seems like the values of $d$ which are contained in an odd number of cicumcircles changes the orientation. Is there an easy way of analytically verifying this? Is there a more general phenomena of which this is an instance?

yberman
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  • Neat. Was the set of points you mapped fixed or chosen randomly for each $d$. How many points were in a set? – muaddib Jun 28 '15 at 04:10

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