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Symplectic capacity and short periodic billiard trajectory

Symplectic Geometry 2012-02-07 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove that a bounded domain Ω\Omega in Rn\R^n with smooth boundary has a periodic billiard trajectory with at most n+1n+1 bounce times and of length less than Cnr(Ω)C_n r(\Omega), where CnC_n is a positive constant which depends only on nn, and r(Ω)r(\Omega) is the supremum of radius of balls in Ω\Omega. This result improves the result by C.Viterbo, which asserts that Ω\Omega has a periodic billiard trajectory of length less than Cn\vol(Ω)1/nC'_n \vol(\Omega)^{1/n}. To prove this result, we study symplectic capacity of Liouville domains, which is defined via symplectic homology.

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@article{arxiv.1010.3170,
  title  = {Symplectic capacity and short periodic billiard trajectory},
  author = {Kei Irie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3170},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

32 pages, final version with minor modifications. Published online in Mathematische Zeitschrift

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