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A locally integrable multi-dimensional billiard system

Dynamical Systems 2016-12-02 v1

Abstract

We consider a multi-dimensional billiard system in an (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space, the direct product of the "horizontal" hyperplane and the "vertical" line. The hypersurface that determines the system is assumed to be smooth and symmetric in all coordinate hyperplanes. Hence there exists a periodic orbit γ\gamma of period 2 moving along the "vertical" coordinate axis. The question we ask is as follows. Is it possible to choose such a system to have the dynamics locally (near γ\gamma) conjugated to the dynamics of a linear map? Since the problem is local, the billiard hypersurface can be determined as the graphs of the functions ±f\pm f, where ff is even and defined in a neighborhood of the origin on the "horizontal" coordinate hyperplane. We prove that ff exists as a formal Taylor series in the non-resonant case and give numerical evidence for convergence of the series.

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@article{arxiv.1612.00187,
  title  = {A locally integrable multi-dimensional billiard system},
  author = {Dmitry Treschev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00187},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure

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