Triangles and groups via cevians |
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Authors: | Árpád Bényi Branko ?urgus |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Western Washington University, 516 High Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, USA
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Abstract: | For a given triangle T and a real number ρ we define Ceva’s triangle ${\mathcal{C}_{\rho}(T)}$ to be the triangle formed by three cevians each joining a vertex of T to the point which divides the opposite side in the ratio ρ: (1 – ρ). We identify the smallest interval ${\mathbb{M}_T \subset \mathbb{R}}$ such that the family ${\mathcal{C}_{\rho}(T), \rho \in \mathbb{M}_T}$ , contains all Ceva’s triangles up to similarity. We prove that the composition of operators ${\mathcal{C}_\rho, \rho \in \mathbb{R}}$ , acting on triangles is governed by a certain group structure on ${\mathbb{R}}$ . We use this structure to prove that two triangles have the same Brocard angle if and only if a congruent copy of one of them can be recovered by sufficiently many iterations of two operators ${\mathcal{C}_\rho}$ and ${\mathcal{C}_\xi}$ acting on the other triangle. |
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