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Mat. Sb., 2020 Volume 211, Number 1, Pages 3–31 (Mi sm9109)

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Billiards bounded by arcs of confocal quadrics on the Minkowski plane

E. E. Karginova

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: Billiards are considered in compact domains on a Minkowski plane whose boundary consists of arcs of confocal quadrics with angles at corner points $\le\pi/2$. A classification is obtained for these billiards, called simple billiards. The first integrals and trajectories of the motion of a ball in simple billiards are described. The Fomenko-Zieschang invariants are calculated for every simple billiard, and a theorem is proved which shows that only three different Liouville foliations of simple billiards exist on the Minkowski plane.
Bibliography: 23 titles.

Keywords: integrable system, billiard, Minkowski plane, Liouville equivalence, Fomenko-Zieschang invariant.

UDC: 517.938.5

MSC: Primary 37D50; Secondary 37J35

Received: 01.04.2018

DOI: 10.4213/sm9109


 English version:
Sbornik: Mathematics, 2020, 211:1, 1–28

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