Birkhoff's conjecture on integrable billiards

Let ΩR2\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2 be a bounded convex domain whose boundary Ω\partial\Omega is a C2C^2-smooth convex curve. Suppose that a neighborhood of Ω\partial\Omega is foliated by caustics. Birkhoff's conjecture. Then Ω\partial\Omega is an ellipse. Although this conjecture remains open, substantial work has established results under additional hypotheses and developed partial approaches to the characterization of elliptic billiards.

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Alberto Enciso, Alba Garcia-Ruiz and Daniel Peralta-Salas, “Local limits of high energy eigenfunctions on integrable billiards”, arXiv:2502.01291 (2025).

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