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Outer billiards in the complex hyperbolic plane

Dynamical Systems 2025-03-11 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Given a quadratically convex compact connected oriented hypersurface NN of the complex hyperbolic plane, we prove that the characteristic rays of the symplectic form restricted to NN determine a double geodesic foliation of the exterior UU of NN. This induces an outer billiard map BB on UU. We prove that BB is a diffeomorphism (notice that weaker notions of strict convexity may allow the billiard map to be well-defined and invertible, but not smooth) and moreover, a symplectomorphism. These results generalize known geometric properties of the outer billiard maps in the hyperbolic plane and complex Euclidean space.

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@article{arxiv.2503.06865,
  title  = {Outer billiards in the complex hyperbolic plane},
  author = {Yamile Godoy and Marcos Salvai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06865},
  year   = {2025}
}
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