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Reversion Porisms in Conics

Algebraic Geometry 2021-08-17 v1

Abstract

We give a projective proof of the butterfly porism for cyclic quadrilaterals and present a general reversion porism for polygons with an arbitrary number of vertices on a conic. We also investigate projective properties of the porisms.

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@article{arxiv.2108.07213,
  title  = {Reversion Porisms in Conics},
  author = {Lorenz Halbeisen and Norbert Hungerbühler and Marco Schiltknecht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07213},
  year   = {2021}
}

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