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Poncelet triangles: conic loci of the orthocenter and of the isogonal conjugate of a fixed point

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Abstract

We prove that over a Poncelet triangle family interscribed between two nested ellipses E,Ec\mathcal{E},\mathcal{E}_c, (i) the locus of the orthocenter is not only a conic, but it is axis-aligned and homothetic to a 90o90^o-rotated copy of E\mathcal{E}, and (ii) the locus of the isogonal conjugate of a fixed point PP is also a conic (the expected degree was four); a parabola (resp. line) if PP is on the (degree-four) envelope of the circumcircle (resp. on E\mathcal{E}). We also show that the envelope of both the circumcircle and radical axis of incircle and circumcircle contain a conic component if and only if Ec\mathcal{E}_c is a circle. The former case is the union of two circles!

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