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Lazutkin Coordinates and Invariant Curves for Outer Billiards
Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • Edoh Y. Amiran, Western Washington University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-1995
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Abstract

The outer billiard ball map (OBM) is defined from and to the exterior of a domain, Ω, in the plane as taking a point, q, to another point, q 1, when the line segment with endpoints q and q 1 is tangent to the boundary, ∂Ω (with a chosen orientation), and the point of tangency with the boundary divides the segment in half. Let C be an invariant circle for the OBM on Ω, with ∂Ω smooth with positive curvature. After computing the loss of derivatives between ∂Ω and C, it is shown via KAM theory that in this setting the OBM has uncountably many invariant circles in any neighborhood of the boundary. One is also led to an infinitesimal obstruction for the evolution property, an obstruction which, among closed smooth convex curves, is only removed for ellipses.

DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.531117
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Curves, Algebraic; Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory
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Language
English
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Citation Information
Edoh Y. Amiran. "Lazutkin Coordinates and Invariant Curves for Outer Billiards" Journal of Mathematical Physics Vol. 36 Iss. 3 (1995) p. 1232 - 1241
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/edoh_amiran/1/