Homotopical rigidity of polygonal billiards

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2014.06.003MaRDI QIDQ2250145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jozef Bobok, Serge Troubetzkoy

Publication date 4 July 2014

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5340

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental grouppolygonal billiardrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Abstract: Consider two $k$-gons $P$ and $Q$. We say that the billiard flows in $P$ and $Q$ are homotopically equivalent if the set of conjugacy classes in the fundamental group of $P$ which contain a periodic billiard orbit agrees with the analogous set for $Q$. We study this equivalence relationship and compare it to the equivalence relations, order equivalence and code equivalence, introduced in cite{BT1,BT2}. In particular we show if $P$ is a rational polygon, and $Q$ is homotopically equivalent to $P$, then $P$ and $Q$ are similar, or affinely similar if all sides of $P$ are vertical and horizontal.

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