Ivory's theorem revisited

DOI10.1093/INTEGR/XYX006MaRDI QIDQ4684162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan Izmestiev, S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 27 September 2018

Published in Journal of Integrable Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01384

zbMATH Keywords

Ivory's theoremnon-Euclidean geometrypotential theoryStaeckel nets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Abstract: Ivory's Lemma is a geometrical statement in the heart of J. Ivory's calculation of the gravitational potential of a homeoidal shell. In the simplest planar case, it claims that the diagonals of a curvilinear quadrilateral made by arcs of confocal ellipses and hyperbolas are equal. In the first part of this paper, we deduce Ivory's Lemma and its numerous generalizations from complete integrability of billiards on conics and quadrics. In the second part, we study analogs of Ivory's Lemma in Liouville and St"ackel metrics. Our main focus is on the results of the German school of differential geometry obtained in the late 19 -- early 20th centuries that might be lesser know today. In the third part, we generalize Newton's, Laplace's, and Ivory's theorems on gravitational and Coulomb potential of spheres and ellipsoids to the spherical and hyperbolic spaces. V. Arnold extended the results of Newton, Laplace, and Ivory to algebraic hypersurfaces in Euclidean space; we generalize Arnold's theorem to the spaces of constant curvature.

Recommendations

• Higher-dimensional analogs of the theorems of Newton and Ivory
• Projection pencils of quadrics and Ivory's theorem
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2112562
• A generalization of Ivory's theorem
• A remark on the theorem of Ivory

Cited in

(26)

• Confocal conics and 4-webs of maximal rank
• Periodic ellipsoidal billiard trajectories and extremal polynomials
• Four equivalent properties of integrable billiards
• The geometry of billiards in ellipses and their Poncelet grids
• On the motion of billiards in ellipses
• Quadratic integrals of geodesic flow, webs, and integrable billiards
• On mutually diagonal nets on (confocal) quadrics and 3-dimensional webs
• Checkerboard incircular nets: Laguerre geometry and parametrisation
• Fun problems in geometry and beyond
• Achtflachgefüge und Satz von Ivory
• A shape optimization problem for the first mixed Steklov-Dirichlet eigenvalue
• Nets of lines with the combinatorics of the square grid and with touching inscribed conics
• A generalization of Ivory's theorem
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3951439 (Why is no real title available?)
• Projection pencils of quadrics and Ivory's theorem
• Two remarkable spherical arrangements of circles
• Recalling thread constructions of quadrics
• Projective Configuration Theorems: Old Wine into New Wineskins
• The Regge symmetry, confocal conics, and the Schläfli formula
• Quadrature for quadrics
• Deformation of quadrilaterals and addition on elliptic curves
• Cusps of caustics by reflection in ellipses
• Note on the attraction of an ellipsoid in a spherical universe
• When Grünbaum meets Poncelet: infinite classes of movable (n₄) configurations
• Fifty new invariants of \(N\)-periodics in the elliptic billiard
• Remarks on Joachimsthal integral and Poritsky property

This page was built for publication: Ivory's theorem revisited

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4684162)