On continuous billiard and quasigeodesic flows characterizing alcoves and isosceles tetrahedra

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12724MaRDI QIDQ6134736zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Lange

Publication date 23 August 2023

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11624

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov geometryquasigeodesic flowspolyhedral convex bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

Abstract: We characterize fundamental domains of affine reflection groups as those polyhedral convex bodies which support a continuous billiard dynamics. We interpret this characterization in the broader context of Alexandrov geometry and prove an analogous characterization for isosceles tetrahedra in terms of continuous quasigeodesic flows. Moreover, we show an optimal regularity result for convex bodies: the billiard dynamics is continuous if the boundary is of class $mathcal{C}^{2,1}$. In particular, billiard trajectories converge to geodesics on the boundary in this case. Our proof of the latter continuity statement is based on Alexandrov geometry methods that we discuss resp. establish first.

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