Outer symplectic billiard map at infinity
Symplectic Geometry
2025-08-22 v1 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
We show that the second iteration of the outer symplectic billiard map with respect to a convex domain in a symplectic vector space is approximated by an explicit Hamiltonian flow for points far away from . More precisely, denote by the symplectic polar dual of the symmetrization of . If we write as the unit level set of a 1-homogeneous function , then the difference between and the time-2-Hamiltonian flow of applied to a point is smaller than for some constant depending only on . Moreover, we show that if an orbit escapes to infinity, then its distance to the origin grows not faster than in the number of iterations. Finally, we prove that a -periodic orbit needs to be close, in terms of , to .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
27 pages, 11 figures