Variations on Steiner's porism

DOI10.1007/S00283-016-9680-ZMaRDI QIDQ2363602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dušan Jokanović, Marina Milićević, Djordje Baralic

Publication date 25 July 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9680-z

zbMATH Keywords

Steiner chainSteiner porism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Review text

Let \(m\) and \(l\) be nonintersecting circles. A finite set of circles \(\{c_1,\dots,c_n\}\) such that, for every \(i\), \(c_i\) is tangent to both \(m\) and \(l\) and \(c_i\) is tangent to \(c_{i+1}\) is called an (open) Steiner chain. If, in addition, \(c_1\) is tangent to \(c_n\) then the set is called a closed Steiner chain. Steiner, in the 19th century, proved that, for two given nonintersecting circles \(m\) and \(l\), if there exists a closed Steiner chain of \(n\) circles, then there exists an infinite number of such chains. Moreover, every circle simultaneously tangent to \(m\) and \(l\) gives rise to one of such chains. In this paper, the authors generalize the idea of Steiner chain beginning with more than two circles and then they find an analogue to the Steiner porism in their setting. They close the paper stating a couple of naturally arising open questions.

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