Observations on circumcenters in normed planes (Q2402916): Difference between revisions

Let \(E\) be a normed (or Minkowski) space of dimension 2. A triangle is a set \(T = \{a,b,c\}\) of three non collinear points of \(E\). A point \(x \in E\) is called a circumcenter of \(T\) if \(\| x -a \| = \| x -b \| = \| x -c \|\). The author shows that a triangle has a circumcenter if and only if the Birkhoff normals of the three line segments \([a,b], [b,c]\) and \([a,c]\) are not all parallel. As an application of this result he gives simplified proofs of some known theorems in the field.