Billiard tables with rotational symmetry
Abstract
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, the Birkhoff billiard map inside the planar curve has a rotational invariant curve of -periodic orbits. We generalize this statement to curves that are invariant under a rotation by angle , for which the billiard map has a rotational invariant curve of -periodic orbits. Similar result holds true also for Outer billiards and Symplectic billiards. Finally, we consider Minkowski billiards inside a unit disc of Minkowski (not necessarily symmetric) norm which is invariant under a linear map of order . We find a criterion for the existence of an invariant curve of -periodic orbits. As an application, we get rigidity results for all those billiards.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.06956,
title = {Billiard tables with rotational symmetry},
author = {Misha Bialy and Daniel Tsodikovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.06956},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
33 pages, 8 figures