Quadrangles entangled in conic nets

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A net of conics can remain unchanged as the four-point configuration generating it varies. We study this phenomenon over a field k of characteristic different from $2$. We allow degenerate quadrangles, consisting of four not necessarily distinct points and six joining lines, provided that three sides form a nondegenerate triangle. The net of a quadrangle is obtained by adjoining constants to the defining polynomials in the pencil generated by its pairs of opposite sides, viewed as conics. We call two quadrangles entangled when they generate the same net. We prove that entanglement is equivalent to the apparently asymmetric condition that every side of one quadrangle bisects the other quadrangle at that side's midpoint. The line-pair members of the net form a bisector field that determines the entire net, so entanglement is also equivalent to equality of bisector fields. Finally, we prove that the locus of centers of the central conics in the net, together with one nonparallel line-pair member, determines the net.

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@misc{olberding2026quadrangles,
  title = {{Quadrangles entangled in conic nets}},
  author = {Bruce Olberding and Elaine A. Walker},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.02020},
  eprint = {2610.02020},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02020},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Quadrangles entangled in conic nets
AU  - Bruce Olberding
AU  - Elaine A. Walker
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/01
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.02020
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02020
AB  - A net of conics can remain unchanged as the four-point configuration generating it varies. We study this phenomenon over a field k of characteristic different from $2$. We allow degenerate quadrangles, consisting of four not necessarily distinct points and six joining lines, provided that three sides form a nondegenerate triangle. The net of a quadrangle is obtained by adjoining constants to the defining polynomials in the pencil generated by its pairs of opposite sides, viewed as conics. We call two quadrangles entangled when they generate the same net. We prove that entanglement is equivalent to the apparently asymmetric condition that every side of one quadrangle bisects the other quadrangle at that side's midpoint. The line-pair members of the net form a bisector field that determines the entire net, so entanglement is also equivalent to equality of bisector fields. Finally, we prove that the locus of centers of the central conics in the net, together with one nonparallel line-pair member, determines the net.
ER  -

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