Rotation indices related to Poncelet’s closure theorem

Waldemar Cieślak, Horst Martini, Witold Mozgawa

Abstract


Let CRCr denote an annulus formed by two non-concentric circles CR, Cr in the Euclidean plane. We prove that if Poncelet’s closure theorem holds for k-gons circuminscribed to CRCr, then there exist circles inside this annulus which satisfy Poncelet’s closure theorem together with Cr, with n- gons for any n > k.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/a.2014.68.2.19
Date of publication: 2015-05-23 16:29:44
Date of submission: 2015-05-09 13:18:40


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