Rectangles conformally inscribed in lines

DOI10.1007/S00022-021-00622-2MaRDI QIDQ2070308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruce Olberding, Elaine A. Walker

Publication date 24 January 2022

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01135

zbMATH Keywords

configuration theoremsinscribed parallelograminscribed rectangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine analytic geometry (51N10) Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Planar arrangements of lines and pseudolines (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C30)

Abstract: A parallelogram is conformally inscribed in four lines in the plane if it is inscribed in a scaled copy of the configuration of four lines. We describe the geometry of the three-dimensional Euclidean space whose points are the parallelograms conformally inscribed in sequence in these four lines. In doing so, we describe the flow of inscribed rectangles by introducing a compact model of the rectangle inscription problem.

Review text

The aim of this paper is to study the set of rectangles that can be inscribed in a system \(\mathcal{C}\) of four lines \(A, B, C, D\) in the Euclidean plane \({\mathbb R}^2\), such that the four lines do not meet in a single point, \(B\) goes through the point \((0, 1)\), and \(C\) and \(D\) are distinct lines meeting in the origin (a situation which can be achieved whenever not all the lines are parallel to each other and they do not all have a point in common). To that end, it is found convenient to study parallelograms that are inscribed in scaled copies of \(\mathcal{C}\), given that the computations are less involved. The set of all such parallelograms inscribed in \(\mathcal{C}\) forms a three-dimensional Euclidean space \(\Pi\) with inner product determined by the diagonals of the parallelograms. A notion of \textit{norm} is introduced for parallelograms, and one of a \textit{conformally inscribed} parallelogram, which means that the parallelogram is inscribed in a scaled copy of \(\mathcal{C}\). Among conformally inscribed rectangles unit rectangles are singled out, those with norm \(1\). Since any rectangle inscribed in \(\mathcal{C}\) can be represented by a unit rectangle inscribed in a scaled copy of \(\mathcal{C}\), it suffices to study the latter. In the space \(\Pi\) of conformally inscribed parallelograms, the unit rectangles lie on an intersection of two cylinders and thus form an algebraic space curve, the union of two simple closed curves.

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