Classification of Poncelet triangle families with stationary orthocenter

About 1 year old · traced to

Let a Poncelet triangle family consist of triangles simultaneously inscribed in and circumscribed about a pair of conics, and let X4X_4 denote the orthocenter. The conics may be configured as focal-X4X_4, MacBeath, or Dual.

Stationary-orthocenter classification conjecture. A Poncelet triangle family maintains X4X_4 stationary only if the conics are configured as focal-X4X_4, MacBeath, or Dual.

This conjecture proposes a classification of Poncelet triangle families with stationary orthocenter, beyond the explicitly identified focal-X4X_4, MacBeath, and Dual families. The source provides no resolution or further evidence of its status.

References

Primary source

Ronaldo A. Garcia, Mark Helman and Dan Reznik, “Four special Poncelet triangle families about the incircle”, arXiv:2512.17440 (2025).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.