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Pseudo-Euclidean Billiards within Confocal Curves on the Hyperboloid of One Sheet

Dynamical Systems 2021-02-03 v2

Abstract

We consider a billiard problem for compact domains bounded by confocal conics on a hyperboloid of one sheet in the Minkowski space. We show that there are two types of confocal families in such setting. Using an algebro-geometric integration technique, we prove that the billiard within generalized ellipses of each type is integrable in the sense of Liouville. Further, we prove a generalization of the Poncelet theorem and derive Cayley-type conditions for periodic trajectories and explore geometric consequences.

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@article{arxiv.2008.06158,
  title  = {Pseudo-Euclidean Billiards within Confocal Curves on the Hyperboloid of One Sheet},
  author = {Sean Gasiorek and Milena Radnovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06158},
  year   = {2021}
}

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30 pages, 15 figures