Conjecture on conserved half-angle tangents for polar Harmonic families

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Let N>3N>3, and consider the polar image of the Harmonic family, a Poncelet family of NN-gons. For each polygon, let θi\theta_i denote its relevant angles, so that the half-angle tangents are tan⁡(θi/2)\tan(\theta_i/2). Polar-Harmonic conservation conjecture. The sum of half-angle tangents is conserved for the polar image of the Harmonic family, for all N>3N>3. The statement extends the displayed triangle case to the higher-polygonpolygon Harmonic family; the source gives no proof or resolution.

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Mark Helman, Ronaldo A. Garcia and Dan Reznik, “Harmonious loci of Poncelet triangles about the incircle and their degeneracies”, arXiv:2409.19464 (2025).

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