Synthetic foundations of cevian geometry. I: Fixed points of affine maps (Q2397237)

This article contains a synthetic treatment of certain aspects of modern triangle geometry. A common theme is the use of affine maps associated to a triangle in order to characterize triangle centers. A detailed description of all results is beyond the scope of this summary but we provide some typical examples. Denote the isotomic mapping for a triangle \(ABC\) by \(\iota\) and the complement mapping (scaling with factor \(1/2\) whose center is the centroid of \(ABC\)) by \(K\). Then the \textit{isotomcomplement} point \(Q = K \circ \iota(P)\) of \(P\) is the only fixpoint of the affine map \(T_P\) which maps \(ABC\) to the Cevian triangle \(DEF\) of \(P\) with respect to \(ABC\). Moreover, the anti-Cevian triangle of \(Q\) with respect to \(ABC\) is \(T_{\iota(P)}^{-1}(ABC)\). This article is the first in a series. Subsequent parts [the authors, Int. J. Geom. 5, No. 2, 22--38 (2016; Zbl 1372.51014); ibid. 108, No. 2, 437--455 (2017)] deal with the conic \(ABCPQ\).