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High-order persistence of resonant caustics in perturbed circular billiards

Dynamical Systems 2026-01-14 v2

Abstract

We find necessary and sufficient conditions for high-order persistence of resonant caustics in perturbed circular billiards. The main tool is a perturbation theory based on the Bialy-Mironov generating function for convex billiards. All resonant caustics with period qq persist up to order q/n1\lceil q/n \rceil -1 under any polynomial deformation of the circle of degree nn.

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@article{arxiv.2503.07488,
  title  = {High-order persistence of resonant caustics in perturbed circular billiards},
  author = {Comlan Edmond Koudjinan and Rafael Ramírez-Ros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07488},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages, 1 color figure