AMR-050-0044 · Complete scoped proof

Focal Inversion Area Products in Elliptic Billiards

Manuscript 2 October 2026 · Online 2 October 2026

math.DSmath.MGUnrefereed preprint

Abstract

For an elliptic billiard with a fixed nondegenerate confocal elliptic caustic, we prove that the original signed shoelace area times the signed area of its unit focal inversion is a positive phase-independent constant when the genuine least period is divisible by four. Both foci give the same constant. The theorem includes all admitted coprime star windings and repetitions of those primitive cycles; concentric circles are treated directly. The general proof derives the focal denominator identity, enumerates every possible complex singularity and cancels all poles on a common Jacobi torus. Isotropic tangency and cyclic reversal reduce the apparent higher-order inverse-area poles to simple ones, and the two areas have the required complementary zeros. Classical parametrization and Jacobi methods are credited, as is the already published simple four-periodic value 4. An unrestricted divisible-by-four listed length is a stronger, false assertion: two exact primitive six-periodic phases in one fixed ellipse and caustic have unequal products after being traversed twice into lists of length twelve. A separate repeated-triangle control confirms the same convention boundary. This is a complete proof of an explicit genuine-period theorem and a counterexample to its unrestricted repeated-list extension, not an unqualified closure of every interpretation of source invariant k804,a or frozen record AMR-050-0044 (5100044) in ulamai/UnsolvedMath v1.6.0. Hyperbolic and degenerate caustics are not included. Three standard-library exact controls and a separately identified 33-family numerical diagnostic support, but do not replace, the analytic proof. This English preprint is AI-assisted, self-audited and unrefereed. Novelty remains undetermined after a bounded primary-source review; no independent human review, proof-assistant verification or absolute-priority certification is asserted.

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

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Citation

Alper Ferudun, “Focal Inversion Area Products in Elliptic Billiards,” EulerSolve Research Papers, AMR-050-0044, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23093706.

BibTeX
@misc{Ferudun2026AMR0500044,
  author = {Ferudun, Alper},
  title = {Focal Inversion Area Products in Elliptic Billiards},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {EulerSolve Research Papers},
  url = {https://eulersolve.org/papers/amr-050-0044/},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23093706},
  note = {AMR-050-0044; unrefereed preprint}
}

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