On the Motion of Billiards in Ellipses

DOI10.1007/S40879-021-00524-2MaRDI QIDQ6367148arXivFDO

Authors Hellmuth Stachel

Publication date 8 May 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Differential geometric aspects in kinematics (53A17) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

Abstract: For billiards in an ellipse with an ellipse as caustic, there exist canonical coordinates such that the billiard transformation from vertex to vertex is equivalent to a shift of coordinates. A kinematic analysis of billiard motions paves the way to an explicit canonical parametrization of the billiard and even of the associated Poncelet grid. This parametrization uses Jacobian elliptic functions to the numerical eccentricity of the caustic as modulus.

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