On the sum of powered distances to certain sets of points on the circle

Abstract: In this paper we consider an extremal problem in geometry. Let

l a m b d a

be a real number and

A

,

B

and

C

be arbitrary points on the unit circle

G a m m a

. We give full characterization of the extremal behavior of the function

f (M, l a m b d a) = M A^{l} a m b d a + M B^{l} a m b d a + M C^{l} a m b d a

, where

M

is a point on the unit circle as well. We also investigate the extremal behavior of

s u m_{i = 1}^{n} X P_{i}

, where

P_{i}, i = 1, ..., n

are the vertices of a regular

n

-gon and

X

is a point on

G a m m a

, concentric to the circle circumscribed around

P_{1} ... P_{n}

. We use elementary analytic and purely geometric methods in the proof.

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