Pseudo-Riemannian geodesics and billiards

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2009.02.010zbMATH Open1173.37037arXivmath/0608620OpenAlexW2015490407WikidataQ115362115 ScholiaQ115362115MaRDI QIDQ1019761FDOQ1019761

Authors: Boris Khesin, S. Tabachnikov 

Publication date: 28 May 2009

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many classical facts in Riemannian geometry have their pseudo-Riemannian analogs. For instance, the spaces of space-like and time-like geodesics on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold have natural symplectic structures (just like in the Riemannian case), while the space of light-like geodesics has a natural contact structure. We discuss the geometry of these structures in detail, as well as introduce and study pseudo-Euclidean billiards. In particular, we prove pseudo-Euclidean analogs of the Jacobi-Chasles theorems and show the integrability of the billiard in the ellipsoid and the geodesic flow on the ellipsoid in a pseudo-Euclidean space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608620

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zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Riemannian manifoldgeodesic flowcontact structuresymplectic structurebilliard in the ellipsoidClairaut theoremJacobi-Chasles theoremspseudo-Euclidean billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

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