Geodesics on an ellipsoid in Minkowski space

zbMath1144.37013arXiv0705.0188MaRDI QIDQ2425368

Daniel Genin, Boris A. Khesin, Sergei Tabachnikov

Publication date: 29 April 2008

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0188

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics; billiard dynamical systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37J35: Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests

37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

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