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Geometry Difficulty 6.8 National Olympiad Prove it Vietnam

Let ABCABC be an acute triangle inscribed in the circle (O)(O) and II is the circumcenter of triangle OBCOBC. Point GG belongs to the arc BCBC (not contains OO) of (I)(I). The circle (ABG)(ABG) intersects ACAC at EE and circle ACGACG intersects ABAB at FF (points E,FE, F differ from AA).

1. Denote KK as the intersection of BEBE and CFCF. Prove that AK,BCAK, BC and OGOG are concurrent.

2. Let DD be a fixed point on the arc BCBC that contains OO of (I)(I) and GBGB meets CDCD at MM, GCGC meets BDBD at NN. Suppose that MNMN intersects (O)(O) at P,QP, Q. Prove that when GG moves on (I)(I), the circumcircle of triangle GPQGPQ always pass through two certain fixed points.

Solution

1)
We have
EGF=BGE+CGFEGF=3602BAC(1802BAC)=180 \begin{aligned} \angle EGF &= \angle BGE + \angle CGF - \angle EGF \\ &= 360^{\circ} - 2\angle BAC - (180^{\circ} - 2\angle BAC) = 180^{\circ} \end{aligned}
then three points E,G,FE, G, F are collinear. Since ABK+ACK=AGE+AGF=180\angle ABK + \angle ACK = \angle AGE + \angle AGF = 180^{\circ} then KK belongs to the circle (O)(O).

It is easy to check that GG is the Miquel point then two triangles GBAGBA and GKCGKC are similar, which implies that BGA=KGC\angle BGA = \angle KGC. We also have GOGO is the angle bisector of BGC\angle BGC then GOGO is the angle bisector of AGK\angle AGK. Combine with OA=OKOA = OK, we can conclude that AOKGAOKG is cyclic quadrilateral. Consider the radical axis of circles (O),(AOKG),(BOC)(O), (AOKG), (BOC), we can see that AK,OGAK, OG and BCBC are concurrent.

2)
In this part, we just need (O),(I)(O), (I) are two fixed circles that pass through B,CB, C, point DD is fixed on (I)(I) while GG moves on (I)(I). By applying Pascal's theorem for the tuple (BCDCBG)\begin{pmatrix} B & C & D \\ C & B & G \end{pmatrix}, one can check that the line MNMN passes through the intersection of the tangent line at B,CB, C, namely JJ of the fixed circle (I)(I). Suppose that JDJD meet (I)(I) at the second point XX then XX is the fixed point and the quadrilateral BCDXBCDX is harmonic then G(BC,DX)=1G(BC, DX) = -1. Denote TT as the intersection of MNMN and BCBC then G(BC,DT)=1G(BC, DT) = -1, which means GXGX passes through TT. Thus
TXTG=TBTC=TPTQ. \overline{TX} \cdot \overline{TG} = \overline{TB} \cdot \overline{TC} = \overline{TP} \cdot \overline{TQ}.
This implies that (GPQ)(GPQ) passes through the fixed point XX. Suppose that YY is the intersection of (GPQ)(GPQ) and DXDX (which differs from XX) then
JXJY=JPJQ=PJ/(O) \overline{JX} \cdot \overline{JY} = \overline{JP} \cdot \overline{JQ} = \mathcal{P}_{J/(O)}
which is a constant then YY is fixed. Therefore, the circles (GPQ)(GPQ) passes through two fixed points X,YX, Y.

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