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Wire billiard is defined by a smooth embedded closed curve of non-vanishing curvature $k$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (a wire). For a class of curves, that we call nice wires, the wire billiard map is area preserving twist map of the cylinder. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Misha Bialy , Andrey Mironov , Serge Tabachnikov

Generalizing local Gromov-Witten theory, in this paper we define a local version of symplectic field theory. When the symplectic manifold with cylindrical ends is four-dimensional and the underlying simple curve is regular by automatic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Oliver Fabert

In this short paper, we show a characterization of Birkhoff Billiards inside discs which is related to the expansion of the formal Lazutkin conjugacy at the boundary.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Klaudiusz Czudek , Jacopo De Simoi , Andrew Gad , Marco Poon

We establish a relationship between the word complexity and the number of generalized diagonals for a polygonal billiard. We conclude that in the rational case the complexity function has cubic upper and lower bounds. In the tiling case the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Cassaigne , P. Hubert , S. Troubetzkoy

In this note we establish the existence of a new type of rigidity of symplectic embeddings coming from obligatory intersections with symplectic planes. More precisely, we prove that if a Euclidean ball is symplectically embedded in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Pazit Haim-Kislev , Richard Hind , Yaron Ostrover

We consider a nonlocal equation set in an unbounded domain with the epigraph property. We prove symmetry, monotonicity and rigidity results. In particular, we deal with halfspaces, coercive epigraphs and epigraphs that are flat at infinity.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Serena Dipierro , Nicola Soave , Enrico Valdinoci

Given an exact symplectic map $T$ of a cylinder with a generating function $H$ satisfying the so-called negative twist condition, $H_{12}>0$, we study the locally maximizing orbits of $T$, that is, configurations which are local maxima of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Misha Bialy , Daniel Tsodikovich

We study non-Birkhoff periodic orbits in symmetric convex planar billiards. Our main result provides a quantitative criterion for the existence of such orbits with prescribed minimal period, rotation number, and spatiotemporal symmetry. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Casper Oelen , Bob Rink , Mattia Sensi

We show that every polynomially integrable planar outer convex billiard is elliptic.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Alexey Glutsyuk , Eugenii Shustin

We generalize the following simple geometric fact: the only centrally symmetric convex curve of constant width is a circle. Billiard interpretation of the condition of constant width reads: a planar curve has constant width, if and only if,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Misha Bialy , Daniel Tsodikovich

In the recent paper arXiv:2405.13258, the first author of this note proved that if a billiard in a convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is simultaneously projective and Minkowski, then it is the standard Euclidean billiard in an appropriate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alexey Glutsyuk , Vladimir S. Matveev

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

The classical Birkhoff conjecture says that the only integrable convex domains are circles and ellipses. In the paper we show that this a version of this conjecture is true for small perturbations of ellipses of small eccentricity.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Artur Avila , Jacopo De Simoi , Vadim Kaloshin

We consider polygonal billiards with collisions contracting the reflection angle towards the normal to the boundary of the table. In previous work, we proved that such billiards has a finite number of ergodic SRB measures supported on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Gianluigi Del Magno , João Lopes Dias , Pedro Duarte , José Pedro Gaivão

The paper establishes the property of splittability of billiard boundary sequences in n dimensional cube into subsequences of fractional parts. This reveals a new property of integrable and weak perturbated Hamilton systems: under a simple…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Yu. Shahverdian

We will present some rigidity results for solutions to semilinear elliptic equations of the form $\Deltau = W'(u)$, where W is a quite general potential with a local minimum and a local maximum. We are particularly interested in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Matteo Rizzi , Panayotis Smyrnelis

In this article, we study polygonal symplectic billiards. We provide new results, some of which are inspired by numerical investigations. In particular, we present several polygons for which all orbits are periodic. We demonstrate their…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Peter Albers , Gautam Banhatti , Filip Sadlo , Richard Schwartz , Serge Tabachnikov

We investigate the existence of elliptic islands for a special family of periodic orbits of a two-parameter family of maps corresponding to the billiard problem on the elliptical stadium. The hyperbolic or elliptical character of these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Oliffson Kamphorst , Sonia Pinto de Carvalho

We obtain structure results for locally conformally symplectic Lie algebras. We classify locally conformally symplectic structures on four-dimensional Lie algebras and construct locally conformally symplectic structures on compact quotients…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Daniele Angella , Giovanni Bazzoni , Maurizio Parton

We show that for almost every $(P,\lambda)$ where $P$ is a convex polygon and $\lambda\in(0,1)$, the corresponding outer billiard about $P$ with contraction $\lambda$ is asymptotically periodic, i.e., has a finite number of periodic orbits…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-06 José Pedro Gaivão