Symplectic capacity and short periodic billiard trajectory

Abstract: We prove that a bounded domain

O m e g a

in

R^{n}

with smooth boundary has a periodic billiard trajectory with at most

n + 1

bounce times and of length less than

C_{n} r (O m e g a)

, where

C_{n}

is a positive constant which depends only on

n

, and

r (O m e g a)

is the supremum of radius of balls in

O m e g a

. This result improves the result by C.Viterbo, which asserts that

O m e g a

has a periodic billiard trajectory of length less than

C'_{n} v o l (O m e g a)^{1 / n}

. To prove this result, we study symplectic capacity of Liouville domains, which is defined via symplectic homology.

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