Confocal conic billiards

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00377-7zbMATH Open1115.37339MaRDI QIDQ997626FDOQ997626

Authors: D. A. Poet, R. R. W. Poet 

Publication date: 7 August 2007

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

causticsbilliardsconicintegrabillity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

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• Geometric properties of integrable Kepler and Hooke billiards with conic section boundaries
• Gravitational billiards bouncing inside general domains -- foci curves and confined domains
• Conical quantum billiard

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