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Cayley-Type Conditions for Billiards within $k$ Quadrics in $R^d$

Mathematical Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

The notions of reflection from outside, reflection from inside and signature of a billiard trajectory within a quadric are introduced. Cayley-type conditions for periodical trajectories for the billiard in the region bounded by kk quadrics in RdR^d and for the billiard ordered game within kk ellipsoids in RdR^d are derived. In a limit, the condition describing periodic trajectories of billiard systems on a quadric in RdR^d is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0503053,
  title  = {Cayley-Type Conditions for Billiards within $k$ Quadrics in $R^d$},
  author = {Vladimir Dragovic and Milena Radnovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0503053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, some corractions are made in Section 4