Hyperelliptic Jacobians as billiard algebra of pencils of quadrics: Beyond Poncelet porisms

DOI10.1016/j.aim.2008.06.021zbMath1154.37022arXiv0710.3656OpenAlexW2048544613MaRDI QIDQ952410

Vladimir Dragović, Milena Radnović

Publication date: 12 November 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3656

zbMATH Keywords

hyperelliptic curvebilliardPoncelet theorempencils of quadricsCayley's theoremclosed billiard trajectoriesGriffiths-Harris theoremhyperelliptic JacobianWeyr's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Modal analysis in linear vibration theory (70J10) Algebraic geometry methods for problems in mechanics (70G55)

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