Remarks on rigidity properties of conics

DOI10.1134/S156035472201004XMaRDI QIDQ2125704zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08909

zbMATH Keywords

chess billiardscircle mapsconicspolar dualityrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

Abstract: Inspired by the recent results toward Birkhoff conjecture (a rigidity property of billiards in ellipses), we discuss two rigidity properties of conics. The first one concerns symmetries of an analog of polar duality associated with an oval, and the second concerns properties of the circle map associated with an oval and two pencils of lines.

Review text

The author proves some rigidity type results on conics. These are motivated by some recent progress on the Birkhoff conjecture and concern symmetries of polar duality which preserves incidence relations between points and lines. Furthermore, interesting circle maps related to chess billiards are obtained in the context of Hilbert's 13th problem.

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