Counting periodic trajectories of Finsler billiards

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.022zbMATH Open1451.37035arXiv1712.07930MaRDI QIDQ1987293FDOQ1987293

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 14 April 2020

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide lower bounds on the number of periodic Finsler billiard trajectories inside a quadratically convex smooth closed hypersurface $M$ in a $d$-dimensional Finsler space with possibly irreversible Finsler metric. An example of such a system is a billiard in a sufficiently weak magnetic field. The $r$-periodic Finsler billiard trajectories correspond to $r$-gons inscribed in $M$ and having extremal Finsler length. The cyclic group ${mathbbZ}_r$ acts on these extremal polygons, and one counts the ${mathbbZ}_r$-orbits. Using Morse and Lusternik-Schnirelmann theories, we prove that if $rge3$ is prime, then the number of $r$-periodic Finsler billiard trajectories is not less than $(r-1)(d-2)+1$. We also give stronger lower bounds when $M$ is in general position. The problem of estimating the number of periodic billiard trajectories from below goes back to Birkhoff. Our work extends to the Finsler setting the results previously obtained for Euclidean billiards by Babenko, Farber, Tabachnikov, and Karasev.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07930

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zbMATH Keywords

Finsler manifoldsMorse theoryLusternik-Schnirelmann theorymathematical billiardsmagnetic billiardsunlabeled cyclic configuration spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms (37C55) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12) Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37J46) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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