Periodic billiard trajectories and Morse theory on loop spaces

DOI10.4171/CMH/352zbMATH Open1408.37106arXiv1403.1953MaRDI QIDQ2339710FDOQ2339710

Authors: Kei Irie 

Publication date: 2 April 2015

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study periodic billiard trajectories on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, by applying Morse theory to Lagrangian action functionals on the loop space of the manifold. Based on the approximation method due to Benci-Giannoni, we prove that nonvanishing of relative homology of a certain pair of loop spaces implies the existence of a periodic billiard trajectory. We also prove a parallel result for path spaces. We apply those results to show the existence of short billiard trajectories and short geodesic loops. We also recover two known results on the length of a shortest periodic billiard trajectory on a convex body: Ghomi's inequality, and Brunn-Minkowski type inequality due to Artstein-Ostrover.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1953

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zbMATH Keywords

loop spaceperiodic billiard trajectory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12)

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