Commuting dual billiard maps

DOI10.1007/BF01264044MaRDI QIDQ1340211zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 29 May 1995

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01264044

zbMATH Keywords

affine planeclosed convex smooth curveconcentricdual billiard maphomothetic ellipses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine analytic geometry (51N10) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Review text

The dual billiard map \(T\) is a map of the exterior \(E(c)\) of a smooth strictly convex closed curve \(c\) in the Euclidean (or, actually: affine) plane into itself, which is defined as follows: given a point \(x\in E(c)\), draw the right (from the view-point of \(x\)) tangent line to \(c\) through it and reflect \(x\) in the point of tangency to obtain its image point \(T(x)\). The author shows that \(T\) is area-preserving and proves the Theorem: Let \(c_ 1\), \(c_ 2\) be smooth strictly convex distinct closed plane curves; then the corresponding dual billiard maps \(T_ 1\), \(T_ 2\) commute: \(T_ 1T_ 2= T_ 2 T_ 1\) (in the domain, where \(T_ 1 T_ 2\) and \(T_ 2 T_ 1\) are defined) if and only if \(c_ 1\), \(c_ 2\) are concentric homothetic ellipses. (To prove that \(c_ 1\), \(c_ 2\) are ellipses, the author shows that these curves have constant affine curvature).

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