Virtual billiards in pseudo-Euclidean spaces: discrete Hamiltonian and contact integrability

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2017224zbMATH Open1415.70033arXiv1510.04037OpenAlexW2963100957MaRDI QIDQ2362298FDOQ2362298

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 7 July 2017

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

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to unify the efforts in the study of integrable billiards within quadrics in flat and curved spaces and to explore further the interplay of symplectic and contact integrability. As a starting point in this direction, we consider virtual billiard dynamics within quadrics in pseudo--Euclidean spaces. In contrast to the usual billiards, the incoming velocity and the velocity after the billiard reflection can be at opposite sides of the tangent plane at the reflection point. In the symmetric case we prove noncommutative integrability of the system and give a geometrical interpretation of integrals, an analog of the classical Chasles and Poncelet theorems and we show that the virtual billiard dynamics provides a natural framework in the study of billiards within quadrics in projective spaces, in particular of billiards within ellipsoids on the sphere $mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ and the Lobachevsky space $mathbb{H}^{n-1}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04037

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zbMATH Keywords

Lax representationbilliardsconfocal quadricsdiscrete integrabilityPoncelet theoremvirtual reflection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) Contact systems (37J55)

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