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We study a class of elliptic billiards with a Keplerian potential inside, considering two cases: a reflective one, where the particle reflects elastically on the boundary, and a refractive one, where the particle can cross the billiard's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Vivina L. Barutello , Anna Maria Cherubini , Irene De Blasi

We consider the integrable dynamics of a Kepler billiard in the plane bounded by a branch of a conic section focused at the Kepler center. We show that in this case, for non-zero-energy orbits, the lines of consecutive second orbital foci…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Daniel Jaud , Lei Zhao

The classical Birkhoff conjecture claims that the boundary of a strictly convex integrable billiard table is necessarily an ellipse (or a circle as a special case). In this article we prove a complete local version of this conjecture: a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Vadim Kaloshin , Alfonso Sorrentino

The Birkhoff conjecture says that the boundary of a strictly convex integrable billiard table is necessarily an ellipse. In this article, we consider a stronger notion of integrability, namely integrability close to the boundary, and prove…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Guan Huang , Vadim Kaloshin , Alfonso Sorrentino

We consider a Kepler billiard with zero-energy in the plane defined inside a smooth closed connected simple curve which intersects all focused parabola at at most two points. {We show that} if has an invariant curve consisting of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Lei Zhao

This work presents some results regarding three-dimensional billiards having a non-constant potential of Keplerian type inside a regular domain $D\subset \mathcal R^3$. Two models will be analysed: in the first one, only an inner Keplerian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Irene De Blasi

In this paper we prove a perturbative version of a remarkable Bialy-Mironov (Ann.Math:389-413(196), 2022) result. They prove non perturbative Birkhoff conjecture for centrally-symmetric convex domains, namely, a centrally-symmetric convex…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Vadim Kaloshin , Comlan Edmond Koudjinan , Ke Zhang

We prove that a a strongly convex planar domain (Birkhoff table) with dihedral symmetry, which is sufficiently close in a finitely smooth topology to an ellipse, is deformationally spectrally rigid within the class of domains preserving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Corentin Fierobe , Vadim Kaloshin , Alfonso Sorrentino

We prove the presence of topological chaos at high internal energies for a new class of mechanical refraction billiards coming from Celestial Mechanics. Given a smooth closed domain $D\in\mathbb{R}^2$, a central mass generates a Keplerian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Vivina L. Barutello , Irene De Blasi , Susanna Terracini

Dynamical billiards consist of a particle on a two-dimensional table, bouncing elastically off a boundary curve. The state of the system is given by two numbers: one describing the location along the curve where the bounce occurs, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Patrick Bishop , Summer Chenoweth , Emmanuel Fleurantin , Evelyn Sander , Jason Mireles James

In this paper we prove the Birkhoff-Poritsky conjecture for centrally-symmetric $C^2$-smooth convex planar billiards. We assume that the domain $\mathcal A$ between the invariant curve of $4$-periodic orbits and the boundary of the phase…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Misha Bialy , Andrey E. Mironov

We present a solution of the algebraic version of Birkhoff Conjecture on integrable billiards. Namely we show that every polynomially integrable real bounded convex planar billiard with smooth boundary is an ellipse. We extend this result…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Alexey Glutsyuk

We consider billiard systems within compact domains bounded by confocal conics on a hyperboloid of one sheet in the Minkowski space. We derive conditions for elliptic periodicity for such billiards. We describe the topology of those…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Vladimir Dragovic , Sean Gasiorek , Milena Radnovic

The aim of the present paper is to propose and study a dissipative variant of symplectic billiards within planar strictly convex domains. The associated billiard map is dissipative, thus it admits a compact invariant set, the so-called…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Luca Baracco , Olga Bernardi , Anna Florio , Alessandra Nardi

We study the geometry of reflection of a massive point-like particle at conic section boundaries. Thereby the particle is subjected to a central force associated with either a Kepler or Hooke potential. The conic section is assumed to have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Daniel Jaud , Lei Zhao

We investigate a class of mechanical billiards, where a particle moves in a planar region under the influence of an n-centre potential and reflects elastically on a straight wall. Motivated by Boltzmann's original billiard model we explore…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Stefano Baranzini

In this paper we introduce a new dynamical system which we call Angular billiard. It acts on the exterior points of a convex curve in Euclidean plane. In a neighborhood of the boundary curve this system turns out to be dual to the Birkhoff…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Michael Bialy , Andrey E. Mironov

In this article, we consider mechanical billiard systems defined with Lagrange's integrable extension of Euler's two-center problems in the Euclidean space, on the sphere, and in the hyperbolic space of arbitrary dimension $n \ge 3$. In the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Airi Takeuchi , Lei Zhao

In this paper, we use the projective dynamical approach to integrable mechanical billiards as in [Zhao, 2021] to establish the integrability of natural mechanical billiards with the Lagrange problem, which is the superposition of two Kepler…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Airi Takeuchi , Lei Zhao

The billiard problem concerns a point particle moving freely in a region of the horizontal plane bounded by a closed curve $\Gamma$, and reflected at each impact with $\Gamma$. The region is called a `billiard', and the reflections are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Peter Lynch
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