AMR-050-0021 · Complete scoped proof

Focal Pedal-Antipedal Area Products in Elliptic Billiards

Manuscript 1 October 2026 · Online 1 October 2026

math.DSmath.MGUnrefereed preprint

Abstract

For a genuine elliptic billiard orbit of least period divisible by four, we prove that the signed area of its pedal polygon at either focus times the signed area of its antipedal polygon at the same focus is constant throughout the fixed-ellipse, fixed-confocal-caustic family. Convex and coprime star windings are included. We derive explicit factors relating focal pedal area to outer tangent area and focal antipedal area to original area, using a velocity-product telescope, an actual Jacobi quarter-period permutation, and direct signed-area algebra. The known even-period original/outer area-product theorem then gives the requested invariant. Zero signed antipedal area is allowed. The four-periodic value is 16 a^4 b^4/(a^2+b^2)^2. We explicitly qualify the least-period convention: repeating a primitive six-periodic orbit to obtain twelve listed vertices does not meet it, and exact controls show that the unrestricted repeated-walk extension is false. Hyperbolic or degenerate caustics and other source assertions are not covered. Source record: AMR-050-0021 (raw ID 5100021, k403,b), Hugging Face dataset ulamai/UnsolvedMath. Self-audited, AI-assisted, unrefereed preprint; no independent human review or proof-assistant verification is claimed. Established elliptic billiard geometry, Stachel's canonical parametrization and Chavez-Caliz's even area-product theorem are credited. Novelty remains undetermined after a bounded primary search, and no absolute priority claim is made. The source ZIP contains the English LaTeX manuscript, authored proof and source-hypothesis notes, and portable standard-library exact controls with their actual execution outputs. Rounded higher-period observations are corroboration, not the proof.

Record

Affiliation
Mercury Software GmbH
Result
Complete scoped proof
Categories
math.DS · math.MG
Manuscript
1 October 2026
Online release
1 October 2026
Version
1.0
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Files and verification

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Citation

Alper Ferudun, “Focal Pedal-Antipedal Area Products in Elliptic Billiards,” EulerSolve Research Papers, AMR-050-0021, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23079799.

BibTeX
@misc{Ferudun2026AMR0500021,
  author = {Ferudun, Alper},
  title = {Focal Pedal-Antipedal Area Products in Elliptic Billiards},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {EulerSolve Research Papers},
  url = {https://eulersolve.org/papers/amr-050-0021/},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23079799},
  note = {AMR-050-0021; unrefereed preprint}
}

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