Spherical and hyperbolic bicentric polygons

DOI10.1007/S00010-024-01088-8MaRDI QIDQ6991576zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ren Guo

Publication date 28 April 2025

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00010-024-01088-8

zbMATH Keywords

bicentric polygonshyper-ideal polygonshyperbolic polygonsPoncelet porismspherical polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09) Projective analytic geometry (51N15)

Review text

A bicentric polygon is a polygon inscribed in a circle and circumscribed about another one. The Poncelet porism implies that, if such a polygon exists for two given circles, then there is an infinite family of such polygons and they all have the same number of sides. Moreover, there are classical formulas by Chapple and Euler, Fuss, Steiner that establish an analytic relation between the radii of the two circles and the distances of their centres, which is equivalent to the existence of triangles, quadrangles, pentagons inscribed and circumscribed about those circles.\N\NThe starting point of this article are previously derived generalisations of those formulas to hyperbolic and spherical geometries, which are now derived in another way and generalised to polygons with any number of sides. The case when the radius of the circumscribed circle approaches zero is considered, and as expected, it gived that the limit of the derived formulas will be as in the Euclidean case. Hyperideal bicentric polygons are also separately analysed.

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