Billiards in Finsler and Minkowski geometries

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(01)00039-0zbMath1022.70009MaRDI QIDQ1602419

Sergei Tabachnikov, Eugene Gutkin

Publication date: 23 June 2002

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

least action principle; Finsler geometry; caustics; symplectomorphism; mean free path; Finsler billiard map; Finsler billiard reflection law; mirror equation; orbit-to-orbit duality; planar Minkowski billiard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37N05: Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics

53B40: Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics)

70F35: Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies

70G60: Dynamical systems methods for problems in mechanics

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Finsler spinoptics, Pseudo-Riemannian geodesics and billiards

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