Convex billiards and a theorem by E. Hopf

DOI10.1007/BF02572397zbMath0790.58023MaRDI QIDQ1320990

Misha Bialy

Publication date: 3 May 1994

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/174561

zbMATH Keywords

billiards; conjugate points; integrable billiards; Birkhoff's conjecture; circular billiards; convex compact planar domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

58E30: Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces

37A99: Ergodic theory

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