Quadrilateral is both inscribed and circumscribed. Let be the intersection point of and , the intersection point of and , the intersection point of and and the circumcenter of quadrilateral . and are selected on and such that and . Let be the midpoint of arc of the circumcircle of the quadrilateral and a point collinear with and such that . Also let be a point collinear with and such that . Prove that the circle with diameter , the circumcircle of triangle and the circumcircle of triangle are co-axis.
Solution
An inversion with center and constant ( is the radius of the circumcircle of quadrilateral), takes the circle with diameter to the line and the circumcircle of the triangle to the line . Furthermore, since is the bisector of and , we get the quadrilateral is cyclic and so . Similarly, . Therefore, under this inversion the circumcircle of triangle maps to the line . So it is enough to prove that the line , and are concurrent.
Denote by , and the incircles of quadrilateral , triangle and triangle , respectively. Now and are the external and internal homothetic centers of and , respectively. In the same manner and are the external and internal homothetic centers of and , respectively. Therefore, and meet at the internal homothetic center of and , say . On the other hand, is the bisector of and so is the line of centers of and . Thus, the internal homothetic center of and lies on . So we have proved that the lines , and meet at , which completes the proof.