Average Elliptic Billiard Invariants with Spatial Integrals

Authors Jair Koiller, Dan Reznik, Ronaldo A. Garcia

Publication date 22 February 2021

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to geometry (51-04) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20)

Abstract: We compare invariants of N-periodic trajectories in the elliptic billiard, classic and new, to their aperiodic counterparts via a spatial integrals evaluated over the boundary of the elliptic billiard. The integrand is weighed by a universal measure equal to the density of rays hitting a given boundary point. We find that aperiodic averages are smooth and monotonic on caustic eccentricity, and perfectly match N-periodic average invariants at the discrete caustic parameters which admit a given N-periodic family.

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