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Definitions
The notion of isometry comes in two main flavors: global isometry and a weaker notion path isometry or arcwise isometry. Both are often called just isometry and one should determine from context which one is intended. Let X and Y be metric spaces with metrics dX and dY. A map : X Y is called an isometry or distance preserving if for any a,b X one has

An isometry is automatically injective. Clearly, every isometry between metric spaces is a topological embedding. A global isometry, isometric isomorphism or congruence mapping is a bijective isometry. Two metric spaces X and Y are called isometric if there is a bijective isometry from X to Y. The set of bijective isometries from a metric space to itself forms a group with respect to function composition, called the isometry group. There is also the weaker notion of path isometry or arcwise isometry: A path isometry or arcwise isometry is a map which preserves the lengths of curves (not necessarily bijective). This is often called just isometry and one should determine from context which one is intended.

Examples

Any reflection, translation and rotation is a global isometry on Euclidean spaces. See also Euclidean group. The map R R defined by is a path isometry but not an isometry.

The isometric linear maps from Cn to itself are the unitary matrices.

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Coincidence point
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In mathematics, a coincidence point (or simply coincidence) of two mappings is a point in their domain having the same image point under both mappings. Formally, given two mappings

we say that a point x in X is a coincidence point of f and g if f(x) = g(x).

Coincidence theory (the study of coincidence points) is, in most settings, a generalization of fixed point theory, the study of points x with f(x) = x. Fixed point theory is the special case obtained from the above by letting X = Y and taking g to be the identity mapping. Just as fixed point theory has its fixed-point theorems, there are theorems that guarantee the existence of coincidence points for pairs of mappings. Notable among them, in the setting of manifolds, is the Lefschetz coincidence theorem, which is typically known only in its special case formulation for fixed points. Coincidence points, like fixed points, are today studied using many tools from mathematical analysis and topology. An equaliser is a generalization of the coincidence set.