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 , 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