Rational triangle pairs and cyclic quadrilateral pairs with areas and perimeters in certain proportions (Q2075009): Difference between revisions

Much is known about two or more triangles as well as triangle-quadrilateral pairs with the same area and the same perimeter in literature. \textit{K. R. S. Sastry} [Forum Geom. 1, 17--24 (2001; Zbl 0986.51030)] raised the following: \textbf{Problem.} Are there infinitely many Heron triangle pairs whose areas and perimeters in the same rational proportion or the areas' proportion is a multiple of the perimeters' proportion? In the current paper, Li and Zhang generalize Choudhry's conclusion [\textit{A. Choudhry}, Hardy-Ramanujan J. 30, 19--30 (2007; Zbl 1157.11010)] of a pair of rational triangles with the same area and the same perimeter, and get infinitely many pairs of rational triangles with areas and perimeters in fixed proportions \((\alpha, \beta)\) respectively, which gives the positive answers to the aforesaid Sastry's problem, where \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are positive rational numbers. Similarly, the authors extend Choudhry's study [\textit{A. Choudhry}, Int. J. Number Theory 16, No. 3, 523--535 (2020; Zbl 1460.11037)] on the two distinct Brahmagupta quadrilaterals with the same area and the same perimeter, and obtain infinitely many pairs of Brahmagupta quadrilaterals and cyclic quadrilaterals with areas and perimeters in fixed proportions \((\alpha, \beta)\) respectively. In the end, the authors conclude their work with the following questions: \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] Are there any incongruent rational triangles (resp. cyclic quadrilaterals) such that the sum of the areas and the perimeters of two rational triangles (resp. cyclic quadrilaterals) equals the area and the perimeter of the third rational triangle (resp. cyclic quadrilateral) respectively? \item[(ii)] Are there \(n \geq 3\) rational triangles such that the areas \(A_i\) and the perimeters \(P_i\) satisfy \(A_1=2A_2=\cdots=nA_n\) and \(P_1=2P_2=\cdots=nP_n\)? \end{itemize}