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Topological classification of billiards bounded by confocal quadrics in three-dimensional Euclidean space
G. V. Belozerovab a Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
b Moscow Center of Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
We study billiards on compact connected domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$ bounded by a finite number of confocal quadrics meeting in dihedral angles equal to ${\pi}/{2}$. Billiards in such domains are integrable due to having three first integrals in involution inside the domain. We introduce two equivalence relations: combinatorial equivalence of billiard domains determined by the structure of their boundaries, and weak equivalence of the corresponding billiard systems on them. Billiard domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$ are classified with respect to combinatorial equivalence, resulting in 35 pairwise nonequivalent classes. For each of these obtained classes, we look for the homeomorphism class of the nonsingular isoenergy 5-manifold, and we show this to be one of three types: either $S^5$, or $S^1\times S^4$, or $S^2\times S^3$. We obtain 24 classes of pairwise nonequivalent (with respect to weak equivalence) Liouville foliations of billiards on these domains restricted to a nonsingular energy level. We also define bifurcation atoms of three-dimensional tori corresponding to the arcs of the bifurcation diagram.
Bibliography: 59 titles.
Keywords:
billiard, integrable billiard, integrable system, Liouville foliation, topological invariants.
Received: 30.03.2021
Citation:
G. V. Belozerov, “Topological classification of billiards bounded by confocal quadrics in three-dimensional Euclidean space”, Sb. Math., 213:2 (2022), 129–160
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/sm9588https://doi.org/10.1070/SM9588 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/sm/v213/i2/p3
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