New extensions of Napoleon's theorem to higher dimensions

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Authors Mowaffaq Hajja, Horst Martini, Margarita Spirova

Publication date 28 February 2008

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/129169, http://www.emis.de/journals/BAG/vol.49/no.1/20.html

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zbMATH Keywords

centroidcircumcenterequiareal simplexFermat-Torricelli pointincenterisogonal pointNapoleon simplexNapoleon's theoremTorricelli configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Review text

Napoleon's problem -- the circumcenters of the three equilateral triangles \(ABC'\), \(BCA'\), \(CAB'\) erected outwardly on the sides of an arbitrary triangle \(ABC\) are the vertices of an equilateral triangle -- cannot be generalized in a straightforward manner to higher dimensions, given that regular \(d\)-simplices cannot be erected on the faces of an arbitrary \(d\)-dimplex for \(d\geq 3\). However, if a triangle \(ABC\) has an interior Fermat-Torricelli point \(F\), then one can obtain the configuration of Napoleon's problem without reference to equilateral triangles, as the vertices \(A'\), \(B'\), \(C'\) of these equilateral triangles are also (1) the intersection points of the lines \(FA\), \(FB\), \(FC\) with the circumcircles of the triangles \(FBC\), \(FAC\), \(FAB\), and (2) the points on the rays \(\overarrow{AF}\), \(\overarrow{BF}\), \(\overarrow{CF}\) for which \(AA'=BB'=CC'=FA+FB+FC\). These alternate definitions allow higher-dimensional generalizations: those based on (1) have been treated in [\textit{H. Martini} and \textit{B. Weissbach}, Geom. Dedicata 74, No.~2, 213--223 (1999; Zbl 0920.51008)], whereas those based on (2) are the subject of the current paper.

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