On Poncelet's maps

Details On Poncelet's maps On Poncelet's maps

2008-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/0812.2588v1

Computers and Mathematics with Applications 60 (2010) 1457--1464

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

14 pages; 5 figures on 9 EPS files

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.camwa.2010.06.027

Given two ellipses, one surrounding the other one, Poncelet introduced a map $P$ from the exterior one to itself by using the tangent lines to the interior ellipse. This procedure can be extended to any two smooth, nested and convex ovals and we call this type of maps Poncelet's maps. We recall what he proved around 1814 in the dynamical systems language: In the two ellipses case and when the rotation number of P is rational there exists a natural number such that P^n is the identity, or in other words, the Poncelet's map is conjugated to a rational rotation. In this paper we study general Poncelet's maps and give several examples of algebraic ovals where the corresponding Poncelet's map has a rational rotation number and it is not conjugated to a rotation. Finally, we also provide a new proof of Poncelet's result based on dynamical tools.

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