The six circles theorem revisited

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.7.689MaRDI QIDQ4576535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dennis Ivanov, S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 12 July 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5260

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: The Six Circles Theorem of C. Evelyn, G. Money-Coutts, and J. Tyrrell concerns chains of circles inscribed into a triangle: the first circle is inscribed in the first angle, the second circle is inscribed in the second angle and tangent to the first circle, the third circle is inscribed in the third angle and tangent to the second circle, and so on, cyclically. The theorem asserts that if all the circles touch the sides of the triangle, and not their extensions, then the chain is 6-periodic. We show that, in general, the chain is eventually 6-periodic but may have an arbitrarily long pre-period.

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