Introducing sub-Riemannian and sub-Finsler billiards

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2022014zbMATH Open1498.53048arXiv2011.12136OpenAlexW3106766874MaRDI QIDQ2144288FDOQ2144288

Authors: Lucas Dahinden, Álvaro del Pino 

Publication date: 1 June 2022

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define billiards in the context of sub-Finsler Geometry. We provide symplectic and variational (or rather, control theoretical) descriptions of the problem and show that they coincide. We then discuss several phenomena in this setting, including the failure of the reflection law to be well-defined at singular points of the boundary distribution, the appearance of gliding and creeping orbits, and the behavior of reflections at wavefronts. We then study some concrete tables in 3-dimensional euclidean space endowed with the standard contact structure. These can be interpreted as planar magnetic billiards, of varying magnetic strength, for which the magnetic strength may change under reflection. For each table we provide various results regarding periodic trajectories, gliding orbits, and creeping orbits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12136

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsbilliardssub-Riemanniangliding orbitshorizontal curvessub-Finsler

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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