A cevian locus and the geometric construction of a special elliptic curve

zbMATH Open1381.51019arXiv1608.07712MaRDI QIDQ4600936FDOQ4600936

Authors: Igor Minevich, Patrick Morton 

Publication date: 18 January 2018

Abstract: In a previous paper we defined the circumconic of a triangle $ABC$ with respect to a point $P$ as the conic $ildeC=T_{P^{\prime }}^{-1}(N_{P^{\prime }})$, where $N_{P^{\prime }}$ is the $9$-point conic for the quadrangle $ABC{P}^{\prime }$ with respect to the line at infinity, $P^{\prime }$ is the isotomic conjugate of $P$ with respect to $ABC$, and $T_{P^{\prime }}$ is the affine map taking $ABC$ to the cevian triangle for $P^{\prime }$. In this paper we determine the locus of points for which a certain affine map $extsfM$ taking the circumconic $ildeC$ to the inconic $mathcalI$, defined to be the unique conic tangent to the sides of $ABC$ at the traces of the point $P$ on those sides, is a half-turn. This locus turns out to be an elliptic curve minus six points, which can be constructed geometrically using a family of affine maps defined for points on three open arcs of a circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07712

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvecevian triangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) Synthetic differential geometry (51K10) Affine analytic geometry (51N10)

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• Vertex positions of the generalized orthocenter and a related elliptic curve

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