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Mat. Sb., 2022 Volume 213, Number 2, Pages 3–36 (Mi sm9588)

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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.

UDC: 517.938.5

MSC: Primary 37J35; Secondary 37C83

Received: 30.03.2021

DOI: 10.4213/sm9588


 English version:
Sbornik: Mathematics, 2022, 213:2, 129–160

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