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van Lamoen Circle

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Divide a triangle by its three medians into six smaller triangles. Surprisingly, the circumcenters O_(AB), O_(BA), etc. of the six circumcircles of these smaller triangles (shown in blue above) are concyclic. Their circumcircle (shown in green above) is known as the van Lamoen circle.

It has circle function

l=-((a^2-2b^2-2c^2)(8a^4-20a^2b^2+8b^4-20a^2c^2-11b^2c^2+8c^4)R^2)/(108a^2b^3c^3),
(1)

where R is the circumradius of the reference triangle.

Its center is Kimberling center X_(1153), which has triangle center function

alpha_(1153)=(10a^4-12a^2b^2+4b^4-13a^2c^2-10b^2c^2+4c^4)/a.
(2)

Its radius is

R_V=(sqrt((a^2-2b^2-c^2)(2a^2+2b^2-c^2)(2a^2-b^2+2c^2)(2a^4-5a^2b^2+2b^4-5a^2c^2-5a^2c^2+2c^4))R^2)/(18a^2b^2c^2).
(3)

No Kimberling centers lie on the van Lamoen circle.

See also

Central Circle, Triangle Median

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References

Li, K. Y. "Concyclic Problems." Math. Excalibur, 6-1, 1-2, 2001. http://www.math.ust.hk/excalibur/v6_n1.pdf.Myakishev, A. and Woo, P. "On the Circumcenters of Cevasix Configurations." Forum Geom. 3, 57-63, 2003. http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2003volume3/FG200305index.html.van Lamoen, F. "Problem 10830." Amer. Math. Monthly 107, 863, 2000.van Lamoen, F. "Solution to Problem 10830." Amer. Math. Monthly 109, 396-397, 2002.

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