Tabachnikov's dual Birkhoff conjecture for projective billiards
Tabachnikov's dual Birkhoff conjecture for projective billiards
Let be a strictly convex closed curve. A dual billiard structure on is a family of non-trivial projective involutions on the projective tangent lines, fixing their tangency points. Call the dual billiard integrable when there is a -foliation by closed strictly convex invariant curves on a neighborhood of on its concave side, with as a leaf. Tabachnikov's dual Birkhoff conjecture. For every integrable dual billiard, the underlying curve and the corresponding invariant curves forming the foliation are conics forming a pencil. The conjecture is dual to the projective Birkhoff conjecture and is proved in the paper under the additional assumption of rational integrability and smoothness; it remains open in this general form.
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Alexey Glutsyuk, “On rationally integrable planar dual and projective billiards”, arXiv:2112.07056 (2022).
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