Uniqueness of the conic-sweeping triangle center for inversive Poncelet triangles

Let E\mathcal{E} and Ec\mathcal{E}_c be nested ellipses admitting a family T\mathcal{T} of Poncelet triangles, and let T=ABCT=ABC be a triangle in T\mathcal{T}. Let T=ABCT'=A'B'C' be obtained by inverting the vertices of TT with respect to a fixed circle K=(O,r)\mathcal{K}=(O,r), and let X3X_3' denote the circumcenter of TT'. In a generic Poncelet family, the uniqueness conjecture. the only triangle center of TT' whose locus is a conic is the circumcenter X3X_3'. This is suggested by experiments and complements the theorem that the locus of X3X_3' is a conic; the claim concerns whether any other triangle center of the inversive Poncelet triangles can have a conic locus.

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Ronaldo Garcia, Shmuel Mark Helman and Dan Reznik, “Conic locus of inversive Poncelet circumcenter and two points of invariant circle power”, arXiv:2604.26035 (2026).

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