Geometry of integrable billiards and pencils of quadrics

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2005.12.002zbMATH Open1118.37029arXivmath-ph/0512049OpenAlexW2017866217MaRDI QIDQ995459FDOQ995459

Milena Radnović, Vladimir Dragović

Publication date: 3 September 2007

Published in: Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the deep interplay between geometry of quadrics in d-dimensional space and the dynamics of related integrable billiard systems. Various generalizations of Poncelet theorem are reviewed. The corresponding analytic conditions of Cayley's type are derived giving the full description of periodical billiard trajectories; among other cases, we consider billiards in arbitrary dimension d with the boundary consisting of arbitrary number k of confocal quadrics. Several important examples are presented in full details demonstrating the effectiveness of the obtained results. We give a thorough analysis of classical ideas and results of Darboux and methodology of Lebesgue, and prove their natural generalizations, obtaining new interesting properties of pencils of quadrics. At the same time, we show essential connections between these classical ideas and the modern algebro-geometric approach in the integrable systems theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0512049

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic billiard trajectoriesPoncelet theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06)

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