The six circles theorem revisited

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.7.689zbMATH Open1391.51012arXiv1312.5260OpenAlexW2963765882WikidataQ58179785 ScholiaQ58179785MaRDI QIDQ4576535FDOQ4576535

S. Tabachnikov, Dennis Ivanov

Publication date: 12 July 2018

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

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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