Tabachnikov's projective Birkhoff conjecture

Let CC be a strictly convex closed curve equipped with a projective billiard structure, and call the billiard Birkhoff integrable when its boundary and closed caustics form a foliation. Tabachnikov's projective Birkhoff conjecture. In every Birkhoff-integrable projective billiard, the boundary and the closed caustics forming the foliation are ellipses whose projective-dual conics form a pencil. This is a projective generalization of Birkhoff's conjecture. The paper proves the assertion for C4C^4-smooth germs carrying a rationally integrable dual billiard structure, but the full conjecture remains open.

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Alexey Glutsyuk, “On rationally integrable planar dual and projective billiards”, arXiv:2112.07056 (2022).

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