The talented Mr. inversive triangle in the elliptic billiard

DOI10.1007/S40879-021-00489-2zbMATH Open1501.51006OpenAlexW3185621623MaRDI QIDQ2095620FDOQ2095620

Authors Dan Reznik, Mark Helman, Ronaldo A. Garcia 

Publication date 17 November 2022

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03020

zbMATH Keywords

ellipticinversioninvariantbilliard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) (68T20) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Questions of classical algebraic geometry (51N35) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: Inverting the vertices of elliptic billiard N-periodics with respect to a circle centered on one focus yields a new "focus-inversive" family inscribed in Pascal's Limac{c}on. The following are some of its surprising invariants: (i) perimeter, (ii) sum of cosines, and (iii) sum of distances from inversion center (the focus) to vertices. We prove these for the N=3 case, showing that this family (a) has a stationary Gergonne point, (b) is a 3-periodic family of a second, rigidly moving elliptic billiard, and (c) the loci of incenter, barycenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, nine-point center, and a great many other triangle centers are circles.

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