Lattice Equable Quadrilaterals III: tangential and extangential cases

Publication date: 11 November 2021

Abstract: A lattice equable quadrilateral is a quadrilateral in the plane whose vertices lie on the integer lattice and which is equable in the sense that its area equals its perimeter. This paper treats the tangential and extangential cases. We show that up to Euclidean motions, there are only 6 convex tangential lattice equable quadrilaterals, while the concave ones are arranged in 7 infinite families, each being given by a well known diophantine equation of order 2 in 3 variables. On the other hand, apart from the kites, up to Euclidean motions there is only one concave extangential lattice equable quadrilateral, while there are infinitely many convex ones.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)