The ballet of triangle centers on the elliptic billiard

zbMATH Open1453.37024arXiv2002.00001MaRDI QIDQ5118043FDOQ5118043

Ronaldo A. Garcia, Jair Koiller, Dan Reznik

Publication date: 4 September 2020

Abstract: The dynamic geometry of the family of 3-periodics in the Elliptic Billiard is mystifying. Besides conserving perimeter and the ratio of inradius-to-circumradius, it has a stationary point. Furthermore, its triangle centers sweep out mesmerizing loci including ellipses, quartics, circles, and a slew of other more complex curves. Here we explore a bevy of new phenomena relating to (i) the shape of 3-periodics and (ii) the kinematics of certain Triangle Centers constrained to the Billiard boundary, specifically the non-monotonic motion some can display with respect to 3-periodics. Hypnotizing is the joint motion of two such non-monotonic Centers, whose many stops-and-gos are akin to a Ballet.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00001

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamic geometryperiodic trajectoriestriangle centerelliptic billiardloci

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms (37C55) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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