Geometry of integrable billiards and pencils of quadrics

DOI10.1016/j.matpur.2005.12.002zbMath1118.37029arXivmath-ph/0512049OpenAlexW2017866217MaRDI QIDQ995459

Milena Radnović, Vladimir Dragović

Publication date: 3 September 2007

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

periodic billiard trajectoriesPoncelet theorem

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) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

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