Billiards in convex bodies with acute angles

DOI10.1007/S11856-016-1429-ZzbMATH Open1380.37076arXiv1506.06014OpenAlexW2962934656MaRDI QIDQ503271FDOQ503271

Arseniy Akopyan, Alexey Balitskiy

Publication date: 11 January 2017

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the existence of closed billiard trajectories in not necessarily smooth convex bodies. In particular, we show that if a body $Ksubsetmathbb{R}^d$ has the property that the tangent cone of every non-smooth point $qinpartialK$ is acute (in a certain sense) then there is a closed billiard trajectory in $K$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06014

zbMATH Keywords

reflectionacute convex bodybilliard trajectorynon-smooth convex body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

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