Quadratic identities of polygons
Fourier analysis of polygonsgeometrical transformationspolygonsquadratic identities of polygonsquadratic relations of polygons
History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20)
If \(ABCD\) is a quadrilateral and \(M,N\) are the mid-points of the diagonals, then \(|AB |^2+ |BC |^2+ |CD |^2+ |DA|^2 =|AC|^2 + |BD |^2 +4|MN |^2\). This theorem has given L. Euler in 1748. (His proof is a good and simple exercise in analytic geometry.) In 1981 \textit{A. J. Douglas} carried a generalization of this Euler theorem on polygons with even number of points [Math. Gaz. 65, 19-22 (1981; Zbl 0452.51023)]. For the Fourier analysis of polygons the author develops analytic instruments [Math. Semesterber. 41, No. 1, 23-42 (1994; Zbl 0798.51024)]. On this basis the author establishes a wide class of quadratic identities of polygons, whose geometrical interpretation leads to polygon theorems. In particular a quadratic identity for the tetrahedron \(ABCD\) is \[ |AD |^2+ |BD |^2 |+ |CD |^2=3 |SD |^2+ 1/3\bigl(|AB |^2+ |BC|^2|+|CA |^2), \] where \(D\) is the intersection point of the medians of the angles \(ABC\). In this paper geometrical transformations of polygons are used and referring to this the quadratic identities.
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