Minimizing length of billiard trajectories in hyperbolic polygons

DOI10.1090/ECGD/328zbMATH Open1407.37059arXiv1607.07383OpenAlexW2963329534MaRDI QIDQ4646396FDOQ4646396

Authors: John R. Parker, Norbert Peyerimhoff, Karl Friedrich Siburg 

Publication date: 14 January 2019

Published in: Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Closed billiard trajectories in a polygon in the hyperbolic plane can be coded by the order in which they hit the sides of the polygon. In this paper, we consider the average length of cyclically related closed billiard trajectories in ideal hyperbolic polygons and prove the conjecture that this average length is minimized for regular hyperbolic polygons. The proof uses a strict convexity property of the geodesic length function in Teichm"uller space with respect to the Weil-Petersson metric, a fundamental result established by Wolpert.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07383

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zbMATH Keywords

billiard trajectoriesregular hyperbolic polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35)

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