Exploring the dynamics of the circumcenter map

DOI10.1007/S00283-022-10223-9MaRDI QIDQ6121459zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas McDonald, Ronaldo A. Garcia, Dan Reznik

Publication date 27 February 2024

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02551

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: Using experimental techniques, we study properties of the "circumcenter map", which, upon $n$ iterations sends an $n$-gon to a scaled and rotated copy of itself. We also explore the topology of area-expanding and area-contracting regions induced by this map.

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• A triangle ``broken into four triangles -- the special status of the central triangle
• The pentagram map: a discrete integrable system
• Triangle centers as functions

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