Geodesic and Billiard Flows on Quadrics in Pseudo-Euclidean Spaces: L–A Pairs and Chasles Theorem

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU141MaRDI QIDQ3450447zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 5 November 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0555

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowsquadricsbilliard problemsChasles theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: In this article we construct L--A representations of geodesic flows on quadrics and of billiard problems within ellipsoids in the pseudo--Euclidean spaces. A geometric interpretation of the integrability analogous to the classical Chasles theorem for symmetric ellipsoids is given. We also consider a generalization of the billiard within arbitrary quadric allowing virtual billiard reflections.

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