Revisiting a September 2016 Problem, Part II
by tastymath75025, Apr 16, 2017, 4:35 AM
Immediately after complex bashing the problem in the previous post, I found a synthetic solution 
Let
be the circumcenter of an acute-angled triangle
, and let
be a point on the circumcircle of
. Let
be the projections of
onto
respectively. Prove that the incenter of
lies on the Simson line of
with respect to
.
solution
tidbit

Let










solution
Let
be the reflections of
over
and define
similarly, so it suffices to show the incenter of
lies on
.
WLOG the problem is in the configuration in my diagram, so that
is on minor arc
. It's not hard to prove by angle-chasing that if
is on
with
, then
is the midpoint of arc
not containing
, so instead of dealing with the incenter of
we deal with the orthocenter of
.
Let
be the desired orthocenter and
be the orthocenter of
; it's well-known that
. Now by angle-chasing
are inversely congruent, i.e.
share a common perpendicular bisector
, which a reflection about switches
. Then clearly
correspond in this reflection, so it suffices to show that
, or alternatively that
. But this is a well-known property of Simson lines (proof: angle chase), so we're done.






WLOG the problem is in the configuration in my diagram, so that










Let











tidbit
This solution was created by translating the previous complex bash into synthetic 
