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Billiard trajectories inside Cones

Dynamical Systems 2025-02-05 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Recently it was proved that every billiard trajectory inside a C3C^3 convex cone has a finite number of reflections. Here, by a C3C^3 convex cone, we mean a cone whose section with some hyperplane is a strictly convex closed C3C^3 submanifold of the hyperplane with nondegenerate second fundamental form. In this paper, we prove the existence of C2C^2 convex cones admitting billiard trajectories with infinitely many reflections in finite time. We also estimate the number of reflections of billiard trajectories in elliptic cones in R3\mathbb{R}^3 using two first integrals.

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@article{arxiv.2502.01997,
  title  = {Billiard trajectories inside Cones},
  author = {Andrey E. Mironov and Siyao Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01997},
  year   = {2025}
}

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25 pages

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