Billiard dynamics near an invariant horizontal circle
Dynamical Systems
2014-04-03 v2 Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
Sufficiently differentiable oval billiards always have invariant rotational curves, but there are only two types of ovals with an invariant horizontal circle in its phase-space: the constant width ovals and some very special symmetric curves. In this work we study the dynamics near the horizontal circle for the billiard map of those two types of ovals, and show that the horizontal circle is approached, from both sides, by other invariant rotational curves. We will also describe some dynamical consequences.
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@article{arxiv.1208.0511,
title = {Billiard dynamics near an invariant horizontal circle},
author = {Geraldo Cesar Goncalves Ferreira and Sylvie Oliffson Kamphorst and Sonia Pinto-de-Carvalho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0511},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This paper has been withdrawn by the author as Lemma 7 is false and so the proof of the existence of invariant curves for symmetric billiard. The proof for constant width billliards is correct