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arxiv: math-ph/0503053 · v1 · submitted 2005-03-22 · 🧮 math-ph · math.AG· math.MP

Cayley-Type Conditions for Billiards within k Quadrics in R^d

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The notions of reflection from outside, reflection from inside and signature of a billiard trajectory within a quadric are introduced. Cayley-type conditions for periodical trajectories for the billiard in the region bounded by $k$ quadrics in $R^d$ and for the billiard ordered game within $k$ ellipsoids in $R^d$ are derived. In a limit, the condition describing periodic trajectories of billiard systems on a quadric in $R^d$ is obtained.

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