Conjecture on the envelope of the circumcircle-incenter line for Poncelet triangles

Let T\mathcal{T}_{\circ} be the Poncelet family whose circumcircle is constrained by the circular caustic, and let Γ\Gamma denote the line associated with the circumcircle-incenter construction described in the source. Envelope-conic conjecture. Over T\mathcal{T}_{\circ}, the envelope of Γ\Gamma is a conic if and only if the Poncelet caustic is a circle. The source presents this assertion as based on experimental evidence; in the equilateral specialization, the corresponding envelope is described separately as a parabola.

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Ronaldo A. Garcia, Mark Helman and Dan Reznik, “Poncelet triangles: conic loci of the orthocenter and of the isogonal conjugate of a fixed point”, arXiv:2508.02368 (2025).

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