Incentral Triangle

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The incentral triangle DeltaI_AI_BI_C is the Cevian triangle of a triangle DeltaABC with respect to its incenter I. It is therefore also the triangle whose vertices are determined by the intersections of the reference triangle's angle bisectors with the respective opposite sides.

Its trilinear vertex matrix is

 [0 1 1; 1 0 1; 1 1 0].
(1)

It is perspective to every anticevian triangle (Kimberling 1998, p. 157).

It is the cyclocevian triangle with respect to Kimberling center X_(1029).

The side lengths of the incentral triangle are

a^'=(abcsqrt(3+2(-cosA+cosB+cosC)))/((a+b)(a+c))
(2)
b^'=(abcsqrt(3+2(cosA-cosB+cosC)))/((b+c)(b+a))
(3)
c^'=(abcsqrt(3+2(cosA+cosB-cosC)))/((c+a)(c+b)),
(4)

and its area is

 Delta_I=(2abc)/((a+b)(b+c)(c+a))Delta,
(5)

where Delta is the area of the reference triangle.

The circumcircle of the incentral triangle is the incentral circle.

The following table gives the centers of the incentral triangle in terms of the centers of the reference triangle that are Kimberling centers X_n.

X_ncenter of incentral triangleX_ncenter of reference triangle
X_2triangle centroidX_(1962)bicentric sum of pu(32)
X_4orthocenterX_(500)orthocenter of the incentral triangle

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