Hopf rigidity for convex billiards on the hemisphere and hyperbolic plane

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2013.33.3903MaRDI QIDQ379543zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Misha Bialy

Publication date 11 November 2013

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3873

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsconjugate pointsHopf rigidityintegrable systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of twist maps (37E40) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35)

Abstract: This paper deals with Hopf type rigidity for convex billiards on surfaces of constant curvature. We prove that the only convex billiard without conjugate points on the Hyperbolic plane or on the Hemisphere is circular billiard.

Review text

The author considers Hopf-type rigidity for convex billiards on surfaces with constant curvature. The main result is as follows: If \(\gamma\) is a smooth convex simple closed curve having positive geodesic curvature lying on the hemisphere or the hyperbolic plane of constant curvature of \(\pm 1\), and if no billiard configuration \(\{x_n\}\) has conjugate points, then \(\gamma\) is a geodesic circle.NEWLINENEWLINE The proof of this result use a mirror formula originally from geometric optics that is generalized to simple convex domains on Riemannian surfaces. The author reduces the claimed result to a geometric inequality that is a consequence of the isoperimetric inequality on the surface of constant curvature. The cases of the hemisphere and hyperbolic plane are handled separately.

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