Pompeiu's theorem and the moduli space of triangles

Abstract

We introduce a kind of converse of Pompeiu's theorem. Fix an equilateral triangle $△A_0{B}_0{C}_0$, then for any triangle $△ABC$ there is a unique point $P$ inside the circumcircle ${\Gamma }_0$ of $△A_0{B}_0{C}_0$ such that a triangle with edge lengths $P{A}_0,P{B}_0$, and $P{C}_0$ is similar to $△ABC$. It follows that an open disc inside ${\Gamma }_0$ can be considered as a moduli space of similarity classes of triangles. We show that it is essentially equivalent to another moduli space based on a shape function of triangles which has been used in preceding studies.

10 pages, 7 figures

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• A family of geometric operators on triangles with two complex variables