Triangles and groups via cevians
Metric Geometry
2013-01-17 v2
Abstract
For a given triangle and a real number we define Ceva's triangle to be the triangle formed by three cevians each joining a vertex of to the point which divides the opposite side in the ratio . We identify the smallest interval such that the family , contains all Ceva's triangles up to similarity. We prove that the composition of operators , acting on triangles is governed by a certain group structure on . 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 and acting on the other triangle.
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@article{arxiv.1109.0557,
title = {Triangles and groups via cevians},
author = {Árpád Bényi and Branko Ćurgus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0557},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
33 pages, 17 figures