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In this paper we are interested in the motion of a ball inside a billiard table bounded by a particular smooth curve. This table belongs to a family of billiards which can all be drawn by a common process: the so-called gardener's string…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Hans L. Fetter

Symplectic billiards were introduced by Albers and Tabachnikov as billiards in strictly convex bounded domains of the plane with smooth boundary having a specific law of reflection. This paper proves a rigidity result for symplectic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Corentin Fierobe , Alfonso Sorrentino , Amir Vig

In this paper, we show that any smooth one-parameter deformations of a strictly convex integrable billiard table $\Omega_0$ preserving the integrability near the boundary have to be tangent to a finite dimensional space passing through…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Guan Huang , Vadim Kaloshin

In this paper we define and study the billiard problem on bounded regions on surfaces of constant curvature. We show that this problem defines a 2-dimensional conservative and reversible dynamical system, defined by a Twist diffeomorphism,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Luciano Coutinho dos Santos , Sonia Pinto-de-Carvalho

We study some dynamical properties of a classical time-dependent elliptical billiard. We consider periodically moving boundary and collisions between the particle and the boundary are assumed to be elastic. Our results confirm that although…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Diego F. M. Oliveira , Marko Robnik

For strictly convex billiard maps of smooth boundaries, we get a Birkhoff normal form via a list of constructive generating functions. Based on this, we get an explicit formula for the beta function (locally), and explored the relation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jianlu Zhang

We consider magnetic billiards under a strong constant magnetic field. The purpose of this paper is two-folded. We examine the question of existence of polynomial integral of billiard magnetic flow. We succeed to reduce this question to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Misha Bialy , Andrey E. Mironov , Lior Shalom

We consider a convex curve $\gamma$ lying on the Sphere or Hyperbolic plane. We study the problem of existence of polynomial in velocities integrals for Birkhoff billiard inside the domain bounded by $\gamma$. We extend the result by S.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Michael , Bialy , Andrey E. Mironov

We introduce a geometric dynamical system where iteration is defined as a cycling composition of different maps acting on a space composed of three or more lines in $\mathbb{R}^2$. This system is motivated by the dynamics of iterated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Samuel Everett

It is known that $C^1$-smooth strictly convex Radon norms in $\mathbb{R}^2$ can be characterized by the property that the outer billiard map, which corresponds to the unit ball of the norm, has an invariant curve consisting of 4-periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Mark Berezovik , Misha Bialy

From a geometric viewpoint, billiard trajectories and geodesics are related by mutual approximation results. In one direction, it is known that every geodesic curve in the boundary of a smooth convex body can be approximated by a sequence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Daniele Giannetto

Following a recent paper by Baryshnikov and Zharnitskii, we consider outer billiards in the plane possessing invariant curves consisting of periodic orbits. We prove the existence and abundance of such tables using tools from sub-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Genin , S. Tabachnikov

In this note we prove a global rigidity result for asymptotically flat, scalar flat Euclidean hypersurfaces with a minimal horizon lying in a hyperplane, under a natural ellipticity condition. As a consequence we obtain, in the context of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Levi Lopes de Lima , Frederico Girão

A submanifold of the standard symplectic space determines a partially defined, multi-valued symplectic map, the outer symplectic billiard correspondence. Two points are in this correspondence if the midpoint of the segment connecting them…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Peter Albers , Ana Chavez Caliz , Serge Tabachnikov

The Poincar\'e problem is a model of two-dimensional internal waves in stable-stratified fluid. The chess billiard flow, a variation of a typical billiard flow, drives the formation behind and describes the evolution of these internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Sally Zhu , Zhenhao Li

We consider classical billiards in plane, connected, but not necessarily bounded domains. The charged billiard ball is immersed in a homogeneous, stationary magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. The part of dynamics which is not…

chao-dyn · Physics 2010-12-09 N. Berglund , H. Kunz

We explore the critical parameters responsible for the transition from integrability to chaos in a family of billiards combining elliptical and oval deformations. Unlike standard oval billiards, where a known critical parameter governs the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-04 Anne Kétri P. da Fonseca , Joelson D. V. Hermes , Edson D. Leonel

In this paper, we discuss rotation number on the invariant curve of a one parameter family of outer billiard tables. Given a convex polygon $\eta$, we can construct an outer billiard table $T$ by cutting out a fixed area from the interior…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-12 Zijian Yao

In view of classical results of Masur and Veech almost every element in the moduli space of compact translation surfaces is recurrent. In this paper we focus on the problem of recurrence for elements of smooth curves in the moduli space. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Krzysztof Frączek

We propose geometric tools that are suitable for studying the behavior of a billiard trajectory in a homogeneous force field. Two examples are considered: a vertical plane with an open top and with a parabolic or right angle boundary at the…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-14 Sergey Masalovich