Dynamic geometry of polygons

DOI10.1007/S000170050086MaRDI QIDQ5945673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Richard Hitt, Xin-Min Zhang

Publication date 26 January 2003

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000170050086

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic polygonsisoperimetric inequalitiespolygon sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60)

Review text

The paper considers sequences \(T^jP\) (\(j=0,1\dots\)) of polygons, where \(P\) is an initial polygon and \(T\) some operator (for instance, \(TP\) can be the sequence of midpoints of edges of \(P\)). If \(P\) has \(n\) vertices and is cyclic, and \(\theta_i\) (indices modulo \(n\)) is its sequence of central angles, \(TP\) may be defined by having the same circumcircle and central angles \(\theta_i'=\sum_j s_{ij}\theta_j\). It is shown that \(\lim_{n\to\infty} T^n P\) exists up to a rotation and is a regular polygon if \((s_{ij})\) is doubly stochastic but no permutation matrix; and if \(\deg P = L^2-4 n\tan{(\pi/n) A}\) (the degree of irregularity of \(P\), with \(A\) as area and \(L\) as circumference of \(P\)), then \(\deg P>\deg TP\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe authors further consider some applications, extensions, and similar results, mainly in triangle geometry.

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