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On quadrilateral orbits in complex algebraic planar billiards
Alexey Glutsyukabc a CNRS, Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, M.R., École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon 07, France
b Laboratoire J.-V. Poncelet (UMI 2615 du CNRS and the Independent University of Moscow)
c National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Abstract:
The famous conjecture of V. Ya. Ivrii (1978) says that in every billiard with infinitely-smooth boundary in a Euclidean space the set of periodic orbits has measure zero. In the present paper we study the complex algebraic version of Ivrii's conjecture for quadrilateral orbits in two dimensions, with reflections from complex algebraic curves. We present the complete classification of $4$-reflective algebraic counterexamples: billiards formed by four complex algebraic curves in the projective plane that have open set of quadrilateral orbits. As a corollary, we provide classification of the so-called real algebraic pseudo-billiards with open set of quadrilateral orbits: billiards formed by four real algebraic curves; the reflections allow to change the side with respect to the reflecting tangent line.
Key words and phrases:
billiard, periodic orbit, complex algebraic curve, complex reflection law, complex Euclidean metric, isotropic line, complex confocal conics, birational transformation.
Received: August 7, 2013; in revised form December 28, 2013
Citation:
Alexey Glutsyuk, “On quadrilateral orbits in complex algebraic planar billiards”, Mosc. Math. J., 14:2 (2014), 239–289
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