Contact complete integrability

DOI10.1134/S1560354710040076zbMATH Open1203.37094arXiv0910.0375OpenAlexW3101277507MaRDI QIDQ618230FDOQ618230

Authors: Boris Khesin, S. Tabachnikov 

Publication date: 14 January 2011

Published in: Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Complete integrability in a symplectic setting means the existence of a Lagrangian foliation leaf-wise preserved by the dynamics. In the paper we describe complete integrability in a contact set-up as a more subtle structure: a flag of two foliations, Legendrian and co-Legendrian, and a holonomy-invariant transverse measure of the former in the latter. This turns out to be equivalent to the existence of a canonical $Rltimes{R}^{n-1}$ structure on the leaves of the co-Legendrian foliation. Further, the above structure implies the existence of $n$ contact fields preserving a special contact 1-form, thus providing the geometric framework and establishing equivalence with previously known definitions of contact integrability. We also show that contact completely integrable systems are solvable in quadratures. We present an example of contact complete integrability: the billiard system inside an ellipsoid in pseudo-Euclidean space, restricted to the space of oriented null geodesics. We describe a surprising acceleration mechanism for closed light-like billiard trajectories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0375

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zbMATH Keywords

complete integrabilitycontact structurebilliard mapLegendrian foliationpseudo-Euclidean geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) Contact systems (37J55)

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