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Outer symplectic billiard map at infinity

Symplectic Geometry 2025-08-22 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that the second iteration T2T^2 of the outer symplectic billiard map with respect to a convex domain MM in a symplectic vector space is approximated by an explicit Hamiltonian flow for points far away from MM. More precisely, denote by NN the symplectic polar dual of the symmetrization MMM\ominus M of MM. If we write NN as the unit level set of a 1-homogeneous function HH, then the difference between T2T^2 and the time-2-Hamiltonian flow of HH applied to a point xx is smaller than c/xc/|x| for some constant cc depending only on MM. Moreover, we show that if an orbit escapes to infinity, then its distance to the origin grows not faster than k\sqrt{k} in the number of iterations. Finally, we prove that a kk-periodic orbit needs to be close, in terms of kk, to MM.

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@article{arxiv.2508.15142,
  title  = {Outer symplectic billiard map at infinity},
  author = {Peter Albers and Ana Chavez Caliz and Serge Tabachnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15142},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages, 11 figures

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