Ellipses characterized by four-cusp caustics
Ellipses characterized by four-cusp caustics
Let be a planar billiard table that is not an ellipse. For a light source chosen inside , let be the caustic by reflection after reflections, with . Four-cusp characterization conjecture. For some choice of the light source inside and some , the caustic has more than four cusps. This is the second conjecture presented in the paper and is described there as potentially over-optimistic; no resolution is supplied.
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Gil Bor and Serge Tabachnikov, “On cusps of caustics by reflection: a billiard variation on Jacobi's Last Geometric Statement”, arXiv:2112.07852 (2021).
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