Periodic Bounce Orbits of Prescribed Energy

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNQ193zbMATH Open1228.37043arXiv1006.1125OpenAlexW3103389179MaRDI QIDQ3173395FDOQ3173395

Marco Mazzucchelli, Peter Albers

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the existence of periodic bounce orbits of prescribed energy on an open bounded domain in Euclidean space. We derive explicit bounds on the period and the number of bounce points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1125

zbMATH Keywords

energyEuler-Lagrange equationLagrangian systembilliard trajectoriesperiodic bounce orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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• Symplectic capacity and short periodic billiard trajectory
• Bounce trajectories with one bounce point
• Bouncing in an oscillatory gravitational field
• Existence of periodic solutions in the systems of the billiard type
• A Brunn-Minkowski type inequality for extended symplectic capacities of convex domains and length estimate for a class of billiard trajectories

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