Liouville foliations of topological billiards with slipping (Q829070)

This paper considers billiards with slipping, a class of integrable billiards introduced in [\textit{A. T. Fomenko} and \textit{V. V. Vedyushkina}, Mosc. Univ. Math. Bull. 74, No. 3, 98--107 (2019; Zbl 1429.37030); translation from Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. I 74, No. 3, 15--25 (2019)], where the authors described a detailed program for investigation of integrable billiards and their topological properties. Related new classes of integrable billiards called topological billiards, which include the idea of billiard books, were introduced in [\textit{V. V. Fokicheva}, Sb. Math. 206, No. 10, 1463--1507 (2015; Zbl 1357.37062); translation from Mat. Sb. 206, No. 10, 127--176 (2015)]. The tables for these billiards are two-dimensional cell complexes and are constructed from ordinary flat billiards by gluing individual flat billiards along a common boundary arc. A billiard book consists of two or more sheets glued together along a common border, the ``book's spine''. A permutation then determines which arc from the billiard book is used to continue the motion of the billiard ball after it hits the border. Depending on the permutation a trajectory that starts in one sheet and reaches the boundary can slip onto another sheet. Some laws of slippage preserve the integrability of flat confocal and circular billiards and the billiard books that arise from glueing them together. The purpose of this paper is to study the topology of Liouville foliations for several kinds of integrable billiards with slipping. Two systems that the authors consider are equivalent in the sense of Liouville to integrable geodesic flows on non-orientable two-dimensional surfaces. These are the projective plane and the Klein bottle. Since the paper mostly relies on notations and results of the above mentioned papers, any reader should be first familiar with them.