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Geometry Difficulty 6.0 National Olympiad Prove it Taiwan

Let the circumcenter of triangle ABCABC be OO, and the incenter be II. Points D,E,FD, E, F lie on sides BC,CA,ABBC, CA, AB respectively, satisfying BD+BF=CABD + BF = CA and CD+CE=ABCD + CE = AB. Let the two intersection points of the circumcircle of triangle BFDBFD and the circumcircle of triangle CDECDE be D,PD, P. Prove that: OP=OIOP = OI.

Solution

Below we use (XYZ)(XYZ) to denote the circumcircle of XYZ\triangle XYZ. Let D,E,FD, E, F be three points on BC,CA,ABBC, CA, AB respectively. By Miquel's theorem, the three circumcircles (AEF)=ωA(AEF) = \omega_A, (BFD)=ωB(BFD) = \omega_B, (CDE)=ωC(CDE) = \omega_C have a common point PDP \neq D.
Let ωA,ωB,ωC\omega_A, \omega_B, \omega_C meet AI,BI,CIAI, BI, CI respectively at points AA,BB,CCA \neq A', B \neq B', C \neq C'. The key point here is that the three points A,B,CA', B', C' do not depend on the points D,E,FD, E, F, as long as they satisfy BD+BF=CA,CD+CE=AB,AE+AF=BCBD + BF = CA, CD + CE = AB, AE + AF = BC (the last equation can be derived from the first two). For this we first prove a lemma.
Lemma. Given A=α\angle A = \alpha. A circle ω\omega passes through point AA, and intersects the angle bisector of A\angle A at LL, and intersects the two sides of A\angle A at points X,YX, Y respectively. Then AX+AY=2ALcosα2AX + AY = 2AL \cos \frac{\alpha}{2}.
Proof. Note that point LL is the midpoint of arc XY\text{XY} on ω\omega, so we may let XL=YL=u,XY=vXL = YL = u, XY = v. By Ptolemy's theorem, AXYL+AYXL=ALXYAX \cdot YL + AY \cdot XL = AL \cdot XY, which can be rewritten as (AX+AY)u=ALv(AX + AY)u = AL \cdot v. Since LXY=α2\angle LXY = \frac{\alpha}{2} and XLY=180α\angle XLY = 180^\circ - \alpha, by the law of cosines we get v=2ucosα2v = 2u \cos \frac{\alpha}{2}, and thus the lemma is proved.

Figure 1

Applying this lemma to BAC=α\angle BAC = \alpha and the circle ω=ωA\omega = \omega_A, where ωA\omega_A intersects AIAI at point AA', we obtain 2AAcosα2=AE+AF=BC2AA' \cos \frac{\alpha}{2} = AE + AF = BC. Similarly we can derive the equations satisfied by BB,CCBB', CC'. From this it follows that the positions of the points A,B,CA', B', C' do not depend on the choice of the points D,E,FD, E, F.
We again apply this lemma twice to BAC=α\angle BAC = \alpha. Let ω\omega be the circle with AIAI as diameter. In this case, the two points X,YX, Y are respectively the points where the incircle of ABC\triangle ABC touches sides AB,ACAB, AC, so AX=AY=12(AB+ACBC)AX = AY = \frac{1}{2}(AB+AC-BC). By the lemma we get 2AIcosα2=AB+ACBC2AI \cos \frac{\alpha}{2} = AB+AC-BC. Now let ω\omega be the circumcircle of ABC\triangle ABC, and let AIAI intersect ω\omega at point MAM \neq A. In this case {B,C}={X,Y}\{B, C\} = \{X, Y\}, so by the lemma 2AMcosα2=AB+AC2AM \cos \frac{\alpha}{2} = AB + AC. We summarize the results obtained so far as follows:
2AAcosα2=BC,2AIcosα2=AB+ACBC,2AMcosα2=AB+AC.(1) \begin{aligned} 2 AA' \cos \frac{\alpha}{2} &= BC, \\ 2 AI \cos \frac{\alpha}{2} &= AB + AC - BC, \\ 2 AM \cos \frac{\alpha}{2} &= AB + AC. \end{aligned} \qquad (1)

From the above equations we can derive AA+AI=AMAA' + AI = AM, and hence segment AMAM and IAIA' have the same midpoint.
From this we can conclude that point II and point AA' are equidistant from the circumcenter OO. By symmetry we know OI=OA=OB=OCOI = OA' = OB' = OC', so I,A,B,CI, A', B', C' are concyclic, with center OO.
To prove OI=OPOI = OP, it now suffices to prove that I,A,B,C,PI, A', B', C', P are concyclic. If PP equals one of I,A,B,CI, A', B', C', then there is nothing to prove; so suppose PI,A,B,CP \neq I, A', B', C'.
Figure 2
In the argument below we use directed angles to avoid distinguishing signs. Denote the directed angle between lines l,ml, m by (l,m)\angle(l, m). For any lines l,m,nl, m, n we naturally have (l,m)=(m,l)\angle(l, m) = -\angle(m, l)

and (l,m)+(m,n)=(l,n)\angle(l, m) + \angle(m, n) = \angle(l, n). The necessary and sufficient condition for four distinct points U,V,X,YU, V, X, Y to be concyclic
is (UX,VX)=(UY,VY)\angle(UX, VX) = \angle(UY, VY).
Let us temporarily assume that the four points I,P,A,BI, P, A', B' are all distinct and not collinear; then it suffices to verify the equation (AP,BP)=(AI,BI)\angle(A'P, B'P) = \angle(A'I, B'I). Since A,F,P,AA, F, P, A' lie on circle ωA\omega_A, we get (AP,FP)=(AA,FA)=(AI,AB)\angle(A'P, FP) = \angle(A'A, FA) = \angle(A'I, AB). By similar reasoning we get (BP,FP)=(BI,AB)\angle(B'P, FP) = \angle(B'I, AB). Thus we have
(AP,BP)=(AP,FP)+(FP,BP)=(AI,AB)(BI,AB)=(AI,BI). \begin{aligned} \angle(A'P, B'P) &= \angle(A'P, FP) + \angle(FP, B'P) \\ &= \angle(A'I, AB) - \angle(B'I, AB) = \angle(A'I, B'I). \end{aligned}
In the above computation we assumed PFP \neq F. If P=FP = F, then PD,EP \neq D, E, and the conclusion can similarly be shown to hold (using (AF,BF)=(AF,EF)+(EF,DF)+(DF,BF)\angle(A'F, B'F) = \angle(A'F, EF) + \angle(EF, DF) + \angle(DF, B'F) together with the inscribed angles in the circles ωA,ωB,ωC\omega_A, \omega_B, \omega_C).
Assuming that A,B,P,IA', B', P, I are distinct and not collinear does not lose generality. If ABCABC is an equilateral triangle, then equation (??) implies that the six points A,B,C,I,O,PA', B', C', I, O, P coincide, in which case OP=OIOP = OI. Otherwise, at most one of the three points A,B,CA', B', C' can coincide with II, for the following reason: suppose C=IC' = I, then by the previous argument we know OICIOI \perp CI; so A,BIA', B' \neq I, hence ABA' \neq B'. Finally, since I,A,B,CI, A', B', C' are concyclic, A,B,IA', B', I cannot be collinear.
This completes the proof.

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