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Asplund and Grünbaum proved that Miquel’s six-circles theorem holds in strictly convex, smooth normed planes if the considered circles have equal radii. We extend this result in two directions. First we prove that Miquel’s theorem for circles of equal radii (more precisely, a generalized version of it) is true in every normed plane, without the assumptions of strict convexity and smoothness, and give also some properties of the circle configuration related to this theorem. Second we clarify the situation if the circles of the corresponding configuration do not necessarily have equal radii.
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The author was supported by a grant VU-MI-204/2006 from the Ministry of Education and Sciences, Bulgaria.
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Spirova, M. On Miquel’s theorem and inversions in normed planes. Monatsh Math 161, 335–345 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-009-0153-8
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