Outer billiards in the complex hyperbolic plane
Dynamical Systems
2025-03-11 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
Given a quadratically convex compact connected oriented hypersurface of the complex hyperbolic plane, we prove that the characteristic rays of the symplectic form restricted to determine a double geodesic foliation of the exterior of . This induces an outer billiard map on . We prove that 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.
Cite
@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}
}