Going in circles: Variations on the Money-Coutts theorem (Q1573691)

Let us consider the following sequence of circles in a given triangle \(A_1,A_2,A_3\). The circle \(S_1\) is inscribed in the angle \(A_1\); the circle \(S_2\) inscribed in the angle \(A_2\) and tangent to \(S_1;S_3\) inscribed in the angle \(A_3\) and tangent to \(S_2\); etc. The circle \(S_i\) is smaller than the two circles tangent to \(S_{i-1}\). A nice elementary theorem (Money-Coutts theorem) states that the above process is 6-periodic, i.e. \(S_7=S_1\). The author generalizes this process to convex \(n\)-gons and gives a sufficient condition on convex polygons for the sequence of circles to be periodic. He extends the result to the case when the sides of the polygons are arcs of circles.