Caustics and evolutes for convex planar domains (Q1098146)
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Caustics and evolutes for convex planar domains (English)
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1988
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The caustics for the billiard ball map on an ellipse satisfy a certain evolution property. An operator relating the curvature of a caustic to the curvature of the boundary of a strictly convex smooth planar domain is defined and used to derive an equation which characterizes those curves which satisfy the evolution property as ellipses.
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billiard
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caustic
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ellipse
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