Pentagram Rigidity for Centrally Symmetric Octagons

Abstract

In this paper I will establish a special case of a conjecture that intertwines the deep diagonal pentagram maps and Poncelet polygons. The special case is that of the $3$-diagonal map acting on affine equivalence classes of centrally symmetric octagons. The proof involves establishing that the map is Arnold-Liouville integrable in this case, and then exploring the Lagrangian surface foliation in detail.