Complex caustics of the elliptic billiard

DOI10.1007/S40598-020-00152-WMaRDI QIDQ823801zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Corentin Fierobe

Publication date 16 December 2021

Published in Arnold Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03706

zbMATH Keywords

billiardcausticscomplex causticscomplex reflexion lawellipseelliptic billiard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: The article studies a generalization of the elliptic billiard to the complex domain. We show that the billiard orbits also have caustics, and that the number of such caustics is bigger than for the real case. For example, for a given ellipse E, there exist exactly two confocal ellipses such that the triangular orbits of E are circumscribed about one of them, and each tangent line to one of those ellipses is a side of a triangular orbit. We also give a bound on the number of caustics for orbits with a fixed number of sides.

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