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14th ibmo - cuba 1999/q6.

Source: Spanish Communities

April 16, 2006
inductionnumber theorygeometry unsolvedgeometry

Problem Statement

Let AA and BB points in the plane and CC a point in the perpendiclar bisector of ABAB. It is constructed a sequence of points C1,C2,,Cn,C_1,C_2,\dots, C_n,\dots in the following way: C1=CC_1=C and for n1n\geq1, if CnC_n does not belongs to ABAB, then Cn+1C_{n+1} is the circumcentre of the triangle ABCn\triangle{ABC_n}.
Find all the points CC such that the sequence C1,C2,C_1,C_2,\dots is defined for all nn and turns eventually periodic.
Note: A sequence C1,C2,C_1,C_2, \dots is called eventually periodic if there exist positive integers kk and pp such that Cn+p=cnC_{n+p}=c_n for all nkn\geq{k}.