Integrable billiards on a Minkowski hyperboloid: extremal polynomials and topology

DOI10.4213/SM9662EMaRDI QIDQ6137399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir Dragović, Sean Gasiorek, Milena Radnović

Publication date 2 September 2023

Published in Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07685, http://mathnet.ru/eng/sm9662

zbMATH Keywords

billiardChebyshev polynomialsconfocal quadricsFomenko invariantshyperboloidMinkowski spaceperiodic trajectoriesZolotarev polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, special functions (37J38) Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37J46) Completely integrable discrete dynamical systems (37J70) Best approximation, Chebyshev systems (41A50)

Abstract: We consider billiard systems within compact domains bounded by confocal conics on a hyperboloid of one sheet in the Minkowski space. We derive conditions for elliptic periodicity for such billiards. We describe the topology of those billiard systems in terms of Fomenko invariants. We provide then periodicity conditions in terms of functional Pell equations and related extremal polynomials. Several examples are computed in terms of elliptic functions and classical Chebyshev and Zolotarev polynomials, as extremal polynomials over one or two intervals. These results are contrasted with the cases of billiards in the Minkowski and the Euclidean planes.

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