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Geometry Difficulty 6.3 National olympiad Prove it

Let ABCA B C be an acute and non-isosceles triangle with orthocenter HH. Let OO be the circumcenter of triangle ABCA B C and let KK be the circumcenter of triangle AHOA H O. Prove that the reflection of KK in OHO H lies on BCB C.
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Solution

We consider the configuration as shown in the figure. Other configurations proceed analogously. Let DD be the second intersection of AHA H with the circumcircle of ABC\triangle A B C. Let SS be the second intersection of the circumcircle of ABCA B C and the circumcircle of AHOA H O. (Since ABC\triangle A B C is acute, OO and HH lie inside ABC\triangle A B C and thus also inside its circumcircle, so DD and SS both exist.)

We have

OSH=OAH=OAD=ODA=ODH, \angle O S H=\angle O A H=\angle O A D=\angle O D A=\angle O D H,

where we use that OA=OD|O A|=|O D|. Furthermore, we have

OHD=180OHA=180OSA=180OAS=OHS, \angle O H D=180^{\circ}-\angle O H A=180^{\circ}-\angle O S A=180^{\circ}-\angle O A S=\angle O H S,

where we use that OA=OS|O A|=|O S|. We conclude that OHSOHD\triangle O H S \cong \triangle O H D (SAS). It follows that DD and SS are each other's reflections in OHO H.

If we reflect the center KK of the circumcircle of OHS\triangle O H S in OHO H, we get the center LL of the circumcircle of OHD\triangle O H D. We need to prove that LL lies on BCB C.

Point DD is the reflection of HH in BCB C. This is a known fact, which we can prove as follows: DBC=DAC=HAC=90ACB=HBC\angle D B C=\angle D A C=\angle H A C=90^{\circ}-\angle A C B=\angle H B C and similarly DCB=HCB\angle D C B=\angle H C B, so DBCHBC(SAS)\triangle D B C \cong \triangle H B C(\mathrm{SAS}). Therefore, DD is indeed the reflection of HH in BCB C, which means that BCB C is the perpendicular bisector of HDH D. Since LL lies on the perpendicular bisector of HDH D, LL lies on BCB C, and that is what we wanted to prove.

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