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Geodesic scattering on hyperboloids and Kn\"orrer's map

Differential Geometry 2020-08-31 v1

Abstract

We use the results of Moser and Kn\"orrer on relations between geodesics on quadrics and solutions of the classical Neumann system to describe explicitly the geodesic scattering on hyperboloids. We explain the relation of Kn\"orrer's reparametrisation with projectively equivalent metrics on quadrics introduced by Tabachnikov and independently by Matveev and Topalov, giving a new proof of their result. We show that the projectively equivalent metric is regular on the projective closure of hyperboloids and extend Kn\"orrer's map to this closure.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12524,
  title  = {Geodesic scattering on hyperboloids and Kn\"orrer's map},
  author = {Alexander Veselov and Lihua Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12524},
  year   = {2020}
}

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27 pages, 5 figures

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