Kalman's conjecture

A tangental trapezoid

In Euclidean geometry, a tangential polygon, also known as a circumscribed polygon, is a convex polygon that contains an inscribed circle (also called an incircle). This is a circle that is tangent to each of the polygon's sides. The dual polygon of a tangential polygon is a cyclic polygon, which has a circumscribed circle passing through each of its vertices.

All triangles are tangential, as are all regular polygons with any number of sides. A well-studied group of tangential polygons are the tangential quadrilaterals, which include the rhombi.

Characterizations

A convex polygon has an incircle if and only if all of its internal angle bisectors are concurrent. This common point is the incenter (the center of the incircle).

There exists a tangential polygon of n sequential sides a₁, ..., a_n if and only if the system of equations

$x_{1}+x_{2}=a_{1},\quad x_{2}+x_{3}=a_{2},\quad \ldots ,\quad x_{n}+x_{1}=a_{n}$

has a solution (x₁, ..., x_n) in positive reals. If such a solution exists, then x₁, ..., x_n are the tangent lengths of the polygon (the lengths from the vertices to the points where the incircle is tangent to the sides).

Inradius

If the n sides of a tangential polygon are a₁, ..., a_n, the inradius (radius of the incircle) is

$r={\frac {K}{s}}={\frac {2K}{\sum _{i=1}^{n}a_{i}}}$

where K is the area of the polygon and s is the semiperimeter.

Other properties

• For a tangential polygon with an odd number of sides, all sides are equal if and only if all angles are equal (so the polygon is regular). A tangential polygon with an even number of sides has all sides equal if and only if the alternate angles are equal (that is, angles A, C, E, ... are equal, and angles B, D, F, ... are equal).
• In a tangential polygon with an even number of sides, the sum of the odd numbered sides is equal to the sum of the even numbered sides.

Tangential hexagon

• In a tangential hexagon ABCDEF, the main diagonals AD, BE, and CF are concurrent according to Brianchon's theorem.

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