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Team Selection Test for EGMO 2023

Turkey 2023 geometry

Problem

Let be an acute angled triangle. Let be the circles with centres respectively such that any two of them are tangent to each other. Circumcircle of intersects with at and , with at and , with at and . Prove that the incenter of the triangle determined by the lines and the incenter of the triangle coincide.
Solution
Let the circumcircle of the triangle be . Let the tangency point of and be , and be , and be . Let the incenter of be , then it's easy to see that are perpendicular to the respective sides of since we have , etc. The radical axis of circles: are concurrent, let's say at point where are defined similarly. Then lies on the perpendicular since it is the radical axis of the tangent circles . Let be the center of and , then and is cyclic. Therefore, and similarly and is an angle bisector of the triangle , results for and follow similarly.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing