Symplectic capacity and short periodic billiard trajectory

DOI10.1007/S00209-012-0987-YMaRDI QIDQ1925763zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kei Irie

Publication date 19 December 2012

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3170

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic capacitysymplectic homologyperiodic billiard trajectory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40)

Abstract: We prove that a bounded domain $Omega$ in $R^n$ with smooth boundary has a periodic billiard trajectory with at most $n+1$ bounce times and of length less than $C_{n}r(Omega)$, where $C_n$ is a positive constant which depends only on $n$, and $r(Omega)$ is the supremum of radius of balls in $Omega$. This result improves the result by C.Viterbo, which asserts that $Omega$ has a periodic billiard trajectory of length less than $C{\text{'}}_{n}vol(Omega{)}^{1/n}$. To prove this result, we study symplectic capacity of Liouville domains, which is defined via symplectic homology.

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