On the incenters of triangular orbits on elliptic billiards

  • Olga Romaskevich

    École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Abstract

We consider 3-periodic orbits in an elliptic billiard. Numerical experiments conducted by Dan Reznik have suggested that the locus of the centers of inscribed circles of the corresponding triangles is an ellipse. We prove this fact by the complexification of the problem coupled with the complex law of reflection.

Cite this article

Olga Romaskevich, On the incenters of triangular orbits on elliptic billiards. Enseign. Math. 60 (2014), no. 3/4, pp. 247–255

DOI 10.4171/LEM/60-3/4-2