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The circumcircle of a planar convex polygon P is a circle C that passes through all vertices of P. If such a C exists, then P is said to be cyclic. Fix C to have unit radius. While any two angles of a uniform cyclic triangle are negatively…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Steven Finch

The space of quadrilaterals with fixed side lengths is an elliptic curve. Darboux used this to prove a porism on foldings. In this article, the space of oriented quadrilaterals is studied on the base of biquadratic equations between their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Ivan Izmestiev

We explore relations between cyclic sequences determined by a quadratic difference relation, cyclotomic polynomials, Eulerian digraphs and walks in the plane. These walks correspond to closed paths for which at each step one must turn…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Paul Baird , Ai Fardoun , Zeina Ghazo Hanna

We investigate the ``generalized Heron polynomial'' that relates the squared area of an n-gon inscribed in a circle to the squares of its side lengths. For a (2m+1)-gon or (2m+2)-gon, we express it as the defining polynomial of a certain…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Miller Maley , David P. Robbins , Julie Roskies

In this work, we give some criteria that allow us to decide when two sequences of matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials are related via a Darboux transformation and to build explicitly such transformation. In particular, they allow us to see…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ignacio Bono Parisi , Inés Pacharoni , Ignacio Zurrián

If we fix the angles at the vertices of a convex planar $n$-gon, the lengths of its edges must satisfy two linear constraints in order for it to close up. If we also require unit perimeter, our vectors of $n$ edge lengths form a convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Lyle Ramshaw , James B. Saxe

This paper presents a general method for obtaining radius of the corresponding circumference to a cyclical polygon $n$ sides given the lengths of said sides, using the notion of complex number. As of radius $r$, obtained, can then be…

The paper contains a proof of the conjecture of M. Klin and D. Maru$\breve{\rm s}$i$\breve{\rm c}$ that an automorphism group of a transitive graph contains a permutation, decomposed in cycles of the same length. The proof is based on the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksandr Golubchik

Paths that consist of up-steps of one unit and down-steps of $k$ units, being bounded below by a horizontal line $-t$, behave like $t+1$ ordered tuples of $k$-Dyck paths, provided that $t\le k$. We describe the general case, allowing $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Helmut Prodinger

In this paper, we study several topics on pedal polygons. First, we prove the existence for pedal centers of triangles in a new way. From its proof, we find that the sum of area of outer and inner polygons is invariant under rotation.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Chia-An Hsu , Hsin-Chuang Chou , Chen-Rui Liu , Chih-Hsuan Liang , Yu-Wei Chang

A {\em k-generalized Dyck path} of length $n$ is a lattice path from $(0,0)$ to $(n,0)$ in the plane integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}$ consisting of horizontal-steps $(k, 0)$ for a given integer $k\geq 0$, up-steps $(1,1)$, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-12 Toufik Mansour , Yidong Sun

We define an $n$-gon to be any convex polygon with $n$ vertices. Let $V$ represent the set of vertices of the polygon. A proper $k$-coloring refers to a function, $f$ : $V$ $\rightarrow$ $\{1, 2, 3, ... k\}$, such that for any two vertices…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Shantanu Chhabra

We consider Hamilton cycles in the random digraph $D_{n,m}$ where the orientation of edges follows a pattern other than the trivial orientation in which the edges are oriented in the same direction as we traverse the cycle. We show that if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Alan Frieze , Xavier Perez-Gimenez , Pawel Pralat

A 3-dimensional polytope is called k-equiprojective if every planar projection along a direction non-parallel to any facet is a k-gon. In this article, we generalise equiprojectivity to higher dimensions and give a lower bound on the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alice Cousaert

The change of conformal moduli of polygonal quadrilaterals under some geometric transformations is studied. We consider the motion of one vertex when the other vertices remain fixed, the rotation of sides, polarization, symmetrization, and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-08-08 V. N. Dubinin , M. Vuorinen

A cyclic random walk is a random walk whose transition probabilities/rates can be written as a superposition of the empirical measures of a family of finite cycles. This identifies a convex set of models. We discuss the problem of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-20 Davide Gabrielli , Carla Valente

We study universal cycles of the set ${\cal P}(n,k)$ of $k$-partitions of the set $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ and prove that the transition digraph associated with ${\cal P}(n,k)$ is Eulerian. But this does not imply that universal cycles (or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Zach Higgins , Elizabeth Kelley , Bertilla Sieben , Anant Godbole

We use $K^*_n$ to denote the bidirected complete graph on $n$ vertices. A nomadic Hamiltonian decomposition of $K^*_n$ is a Hamiltonian decomposition, with the additional property that ``nomads'' walk along the Hamiltonian cycles (moving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Daniel W. Cranston

The concept of the cyclic averages are introduced for a regular polygon $P_n$ and a Platonic solid $T_n$. It is shown that cyclic averages of equal powers are the same for various $P_n(T_n)$, but their number is characteristic of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Mamuka Meskhishvili

We exhibit two instances of the cyclic sieving phenomenon - one on dissections of a polygon of a fixed type and one on triangulations of a once-punctured polygon. We use these results to give refined enumerations of certain families of…

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