Density of a thin film billiard reflection pseudogroup in a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism pseudogroup
Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83) Symplectic and canonical mappings (37J11) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Canonical transformations in symplectic and contact geometry (53D22)
The author considers billiards in Euclidean spaces: a hypersurface \(\gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\), either a strictly convex closed hypersurface or a germ of a hypersurface. He examines compositional ratios of reflections from \(\gamma\) and reflections from its small deformations. In [Journal of Nonlinear Science 29, 621--642 (2019; Zbl 1415.70032)], \textit{R. Perline} studied reflections between two mirrors in the limit as they approach one another (creating a ``thin film between them), showed that derivatives with respect to the displacement parameter give rise to Hamiltonian vector fields, and calculated their Hamiltonian functions.\N\NIn the current paper, the author shows that the Lie algebra generated by these Hamiltonian vector fields (or symplectic vector fields in the case where \(\gamma\) is the germ of a curve) is dense in the Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector fields. Then he considers the pseudogroup generated by the compositional ratios of reflections. For strictly convex closed hypersurfaces he shows that the \(C^\infty\) closure of this pseudogroup contains the pseudogroup of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms between open subdomains of the phase cylinder (the space of oriented lines intersecting \(\gamma\) transversally). An analogous result holds for germs of hypersurfaces.\N\NThe author also proves similar results for hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds.
- On the density of nonintegrable Hamiltonian systems close to being billiard
- On denseness of nonintegrable Hamiltonian systems close to billiards
- Introducing symplectic billiards
- Pseudo-integrable billiards and double reflection nets
- Virtual billiards in pseudo-Euclidean spaces: discrete Hamiltonian and contact integrability
- \(J\)-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology
- Billiard transformations of parallel flows: a periscope theorem
- Billiards in tubular neighborhoods of manifolds of codimension 1
- Embedding problems in symplectic geometry
- Equivalence of glancing hyper-surfaces
- Equivalence of glancing hypersurfaces. II
- Geometry of thin films
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1002916 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 44571 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3601149 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 780179 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 807565 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2188190 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2229974 (Why is no real title available?)
- On the Volume Elements on a Manifold
- Spectral invariants of convex planar regions
- Symplectomorphisms of exotic discs
This page was built for publication: Density of a thin film billiard reflection pseudogroup in a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism pseudogroup
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6584675)
