Gutkin billiard tables in higher dimensions and rigidity

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AAAF4DMaRDI QIDQ4569306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Misha Bialy

Publication date 28 June 2018

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02919

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicBirkhoff billiard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Dynamical aspects of twist maps (37E40) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10)

Abstract: E. Gutkin found a remarkable class of convex billiard tables in the plane which have a constant angle invariant curve. In this paper we prove that in dimension 3 only round sphere has such a property. For dimension greater than 3 it must be either a sphere or to have a very special geometric properties. In 2-dimensional case we prove a rigidity result for Gutkin billiard tables. This is done with the help of a new generating function introduced recently for billiards in our joint paper with A.E. Mironov. A formula for this generating function in higher dimensions is found.

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