Loci of 3-periodics in an Elliptic Billiard: why so many ellipses?

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2022.06.001MaRDI QIDQ2156376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Reznik, Ronaldo A. Garcia, Jair Koiller

Publication date 18 July 2022

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08041

zbMATH Keywords

resultantlocusPonceletporism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms (37C55) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

Abstract: A triangle center such as the incenter, barycenter, etc., is specified by a function thrice- and cyclically applied on sidelengths and/or angles. Consider the 1d family of 3-periodics in the elliptic billiard, and the loci of its triangle centers. Some will sweep ellipses, and others higher-degree algebraic curves. We propose two rigorous methods to prove if the locus of a given center is an ellipse: one based on computer algebra, and another based on an algebro-geometric method. We also prove that if the triangle center function is rational on sidelengths, the locus is algebraic

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