Exterior differential systems and billiards
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
I describe work in progress with Baryshnikov and Zharnitsky on periodic billiard orbits that leads one to an exterior differential system (EDS). I then give a brief introduction to EDS illustrated by several examples.
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@article{arxiv.math/0609504,
title = {Exterior differential systems and billiards},
author = {J. M. Landsberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609504},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages, appeared in the proceedings from the seventh international conference on geometry, integrability and quantization, Varna 2005