The Talented Mr. Inversive Triangle in the Elliptic Billiard
Metric Geometry
2022-10-11 v2
Abstract
Inverting the vertices of elliptic billiard N-periodics with respect to a circle centered on one focus yields a new "focus-inversive" family inscribed in Pascal's Lima\c{c}on. The following are some of its surprising invariants: (i) perimeter, (ii) sum of cosines, and (iii) sum of distances from inversion center (the focus) to vertices. We prove these for the N=3 case, showing that this family (a) has a stationary Gergonne point, (b) is a 3-periodic family of a second, rigidly moving elliptic billiard, and (c) the loci of incenter, barycenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, nine-point center, and a great many other triangle centers are circles.
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@article{arxiv.2012.03020,
title = {The Talented Mr. Inversive Triangle in the Elliptic Billiard},
author = {Dan Reznik and Ronaldo Garcia and Mark Helman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03020},
year = {2022}
}
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15 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, 9 video links