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Integrable billiards and quadrics
V. Dragovićab, M. Radnovića a Mathematical Institute SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
b Mathematical Physics Group, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract:
Billiards inside quadrics are considered as integrable dynamical systems with a rich geometric structure. The two-way interaction between the dynamics of billiards and the geometry of pencils of quadrics in an arbitrary dimension is considered. Several well-known classical and modern genus-1 results are generalized to arbitrary dimension and genus, such as: the Poncelet theorem, the Darboux theorem, the Weyr theorem, and the Griffiths–Harris space theorem. A synthetic approach to higher-genera addition theorems is presented.
Bibliography: 77 titles.
Keywords:
hyperelliptic curve, Jacobian variety, Poncelet porism, periodic trajectories, Poncelet–Darboux grids, addition theorems.
Received: 03.02.2010
Citation:
V. Dragović, M. Radnović, “Integrable billiards and quadrics”, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 65:2(392) (2010), 133–194; Russian Math. Surveys, 65:2 (2010), 319–379
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/rm9349https://doi.org/10.1070/RM2010v065n02ABEH004673 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/rm/v65/i2/p133
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