Periodic trajectories in 3-dimensional convex billiards

DOI10.1007/S002290200273MaRDI QIDQ1849396zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Farber, S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 1 December 2002

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106049

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: We give lower bound on the number of periodic billiard trajectories inside a generic smooth strictly convex closed surface in 3-space: for odd n, there are at least 2(n-1) such trajectories. We apply a topological approach based on the calculation of cohomology of certain configuration spaces.

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