Ellipsoidal billiards in pseudo-Euclidean spaces and relativistic quadrics

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.06.004zbMATH Open1252.37049arXiv1108.4552OpenAlexW1980309091MaRDI QIDQ456745FDOQ456745

Milena Radnović, Vladimir Dragović

Publication date: 16 October 2012

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study geometry of confocal quadrics in pseudo-Euclidean spaces of an arbitrary dimension $d$ and any signature, and related billiard dynamics. The goal is to give a complete description of periodic billiard trajectories within ellipsoids. The novelty of our approach is based on introduction of a new discrete combinatorial-geometric structure associated to a confocal pencil of quadrics, a colouring in $d$ colours, by which we decompose quadrics of $d+1$ geometric types of a pencil into new relativistic quadrics of $d$ relativistic types. Deep insight of related geometry and combinatorics comes from our study of what we call discriminat sets of tropical lines $Sigm{a}^{+}$ and $Sigm{a}^{-}$ and their singularities. All of that enable usto get an analytic criterion describing all periodic billiard trajectories, including the light-like ones as those of a special interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4552

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceconfocal quadricslight-like billiard trajectoriesperiodic billiard trajectoriesPoncelet theoremtropic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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