Finiteness theorems on elliptical billiards and a variant of the dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12561arXiv2103.11347OpenAlexW3137663503MaRDI QIDQ6180463FDOQ6180463

Authors: Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier 

Publication date: 19 December 2023

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

Abstract: We offer some theorems, mainly of finiteness, for certain patterns in elliptical billiards, related to periodic trajectories. For instance, if two players hit a ball at a given position and with directions forming a fixed angle in $(0,pi)$, there are only finitely many cases for both trajectories being periodic. Another instance is the finiteness of the billiard shots which send a given ball into another one so that this falls eventually in a hole. These results have their origin in `relative' cases of the Manin-Mumford conjecture, and constitute instances of how arithmetical content may affect chaotic behaviour (in billiards). We shall also interpret the statements through a variant of the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture. In turn, this embraces cases which, somewhat surprisingly, can be treated (only) by completely different methods compared to the former; here we shall offer an explicit example related to diophantine equations in algebraic tori.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11347

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Arithmetic problems in algebraic geometry; Diophantine geometry (14G99)

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