The pentagram map, Poncelet polygons, and commuting difference operators

DOI10.1112/S0010437X22007345MaRDI QIDQ5095585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Izosimov

Publication date 10 August 2022

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10749

zbMATH Keywords

difference operatorpentagram mapPoncelet polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) Difference operators (39A70) Lattices and convex bodies in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C05) Completely integrable discrete dynamical systems (37J70)

Abstract: The pentagram map takes a planar polygon $P$ to a polygon $P^{\prime }$ whose vertices are the intersection points of consecutive shortest diagonals of $P$. This map is known to interact nicely with Poncelet polygons, i.e. polygons which are simultaneously inscribed in a conic and circumscribed about a conic. A theorem of R. Schwartz says that if $P$ is a Poncelet polygon, then the image of $P$ under the pentagram map is projectively equivalent to $P$. In the present paper we show that in the convex case this property characterizes Poncelet polygons: if a convex polygon is projectively equivalent to its pentagram image, then it is Poncelet. The proof is based on the theory of commuting difference operators, as well as on properties of real elliptic curves and theta functions.

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