Integrable billiards on a Minkowski hyperboloid: extremal polynomials and topology

DOI10.4213/SM9662EzbMATH Open1530.37051arXiv2010.07685OpenAlexW3198596981MaRDI QIDQ6137399FDOQ6137399

Sean Gasiorek, Milena Radnović, Vladimir Dragović

Publication date: 2 September 2023

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07685

zbMATH Keywords

Chebyshev polynomialsMinkowski spacebilliardperiodic trajectoriesZolotarev polynomialsconfocal quadricshyperboloidFomenko invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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