Let be the circumcenter of triangle . Let , and be the reflection of over lines , and , respectively. Show that lines , and are concurrent.
, 2021
Solution
Refer to figure 12.
As is the circumcenter of it follows that line segments and are concurrent. As is the reflection of across it follows that segments and are concurrent and segments and are concurrent. It follows that is a rhombus and therefore also a parallelogram. Similarly is also a parallelogram.
As lines and are parallel and lines and are parallel it follows from the transitivity of parallelism that lines and are parallel.
As lines and are parallel and lines and are parallel it follows from Desargues's theorem (the Euclidean plane is a translation plane) that lines and are parallel. We have hence shown that is a parallelogram. Similarly it can be shown that is also a parallelogram.
Let be the intersection point of lines and . As is a parallelogram it follows that is the midpoint of segment . As is the midpoint of segment and is a parallelogram it follows that line passes through . We have therefore demonstrated that is a common point on , and , that is lines , and are concurrent.
