Lagrangian relations and linear point billiards

被引:6
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作者
Fejoz, Jacques [1 ,2 ]
Knauf, Andreas [3 ]
Montgomery, Richard [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 09, Paris, France
[2] Observ Paris, Paris, France
[3] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Dept Math, Cauerstr 11, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[4] UC Santa Cruz, Math Dept, 4111 McHenry, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
billiards; N-body; Lagrangian Relations; CAT(0); Hadamard space; generating families; SEMI-DISPERSING BILLIARDS; NUMBER;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6544/aa5b26
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
Motivated by the high-energy limit of the N-body problem we construct non-deterministic billiard process. The billiard table is the complement of a finite collection of linear subspaces within a Euclidean vector space. A trajectory is a constant speed polygonal curve with vertices on the subspaces and change of direction upon hitting a subspace governed by 'conservation of momentum' (mirror reflection). The itinerary of a trajectory is the list of subspaces it hits, in order. (A) Are itineraries finite? (B) What is the structure of the space of all trajectories having a fixed itinerary? In a beautiful series of papers Burago-Ferleger-Kononenko [BFK] answered (A) affirmatively by using non-smooth metric geometry ideas and the notion of a Hadamard space. We answer (B) by proving that this space of trajectories is diffeomorphic to a Lagrangian relation on the space of lines in the Euclidean space. Our methods combine those of BFK with the notion of a generating family for a Lagrangian relation.
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页码:1326 / 1355
页数:30
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