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The Fermat-Torricelli Problem in the Projective Plane

Metric Geometry 2022-04-08 v2

Abstract

We pose and study the Fermat-Torricelli problem for a triangle in the projective plane under the sine distance. Our main finding is that if every side of the triangle has length greater than sin60\sin 60^\circ, then the Fermat-Torricelli point is the vertex opposite the longest side. Our proof relies on a complete characterization of the equilateral case together with a deformation argument.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.10216,
  title  = {The Fermat-Torricelli Problem in the Projective Plane},
  author = {Manolis C. Tsakiris and Sihang Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10216},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

21 pages, improved presentation. Final version will appear at Mathematica Scandinavica

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