Ivrii's conjecture on periodic billiard points

Let ΩR2\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2 be a plane region with smooth boundary, and consider the billiard in Ω\Omega. The periodic points are the points of the billiard phase space corresponding to periodic billiard trajectories. Ivrii's conjecture. The set of periodic points of the billiard in Ω\Omega has measure 00.

This conjecture is motivated by Weyl's second-order spectral asymptotics. Ivrii proved that the Weyl conjecture holds when the set of periodic points has measure zero, but the measure-zero assertion itself remains a central open problem in billiards.

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Primary source

Max Weinreich, “Algebraic billiards in the Fermat hyperbola”, arXiv:2406.16172 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2402.18782, arXiv:2209.11721.

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