Caustic-Free Regions for Billiards on Surfaces of Constant Curvature

2021/02/09 by Florentin, Dan Itzhak, Ostrover, Yaron, Rosen, Daniel · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.04914

Abstract

In this note we study caustic-free regions for convex billiard tables in the hyperbolic plane or the hemisphere. In particular, following a result by Gutkin and Katok in the Euclidean case, we estimate the size of such regions in terms of the geometry of the billiard table. Moreover, we extend to this setting a theorem due to Hubacher which shows that no caustics exist near the boundary of a convex billiard table whose curvature is discontinuous.

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