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6 TST for BMO

Bulgaria geometry

Problem

Given a scalene triangle . On the rays and , the points and are chosen, respectively, such that . We denote by the center of the circumcircle about . Analogously, we define the points and . Prove that the lines , and intersect at a point that lies on the circumcircle of the triangle .

(Alexander Ivanov)
Solution
Let and be the centers of the circumscribed and inscribed circle of , and , , be the centers of the arcs , , (not containing the third vertices) of the circumscribed circle. By symmetry with respect to we have and together with it follows that is the segment bisector of . Analogously, is the segment bisector of . Thus, the quadrilateral is a parallelogram with , i.e. rhombus. In other words, and are symmetric about , and this is also true for and , i.e. is symmetric to with respect to . Analogously, and are symmetric on with respect to and , respectively. Since is the orthocenter of , finally the lines , , and intersect at the Anti-Steiner point for the line and triangle (circumscribed about ).

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Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleSimson lineAngle chasing