Orbits of triangles obtained by interior division of sides (Q1130263)

The author considers the set \(Q\) of similarity classes of planar triangles. Denoting by \(x=\sphericalangle CAB\), \(y=\sphericalangle ABC\), \(z= \sphericalangle BCA\) the inner angles of the element \(\Delta ABC\) of such a class \([ABC]\) from \(Q\), this class is represented by a point in \(\Pi=\{(x,y,z): x+y+z= \pi\); \(x,y,z>0\}\). By making interior division of the sides of \(\Delta ABC\), the author defines an orbit in \(\Pi\), starting from \([ABC]\). It turns out that this is determined by a differentiable dynamical system, and is the intersection of \(\Pi\) and the surface \(\text{cot} x +\text{cot} y +\text{cot} z =\text{const}\). Also the convexity of the corresponding trajectories is shown, and these trajectories degenerate to one point if and only if \(\Delta ABC\) is regular.