Birkhoff–Poritsky conjecture for Kepler billiards

Determine whether, among bounded strictly convex planar domains with mathcal{C}^2 boundary, the only Kepler billiards integrable at all energy levels are ellipses with the centre of attraction located at one of the foci.

Background

A Kepler billiard is a mechanical billiard in which the particle moves under a Newtonian central attraction and reflects elastically at the boundary. Ellipses with the centre of attraction at a focus provide integrable examples at every energy level.

The cited work has partially addressed this conjecture, but the paper notes an unresolved exceptional possibility involving a special position of the attraction centre. The conjecture is therefore explicitly presented as an open classification problem.

References

Among bounded, strictly convex planar domains with $\mathcal{C}2$--boundary, the only Kepler billiards which are integrable at all energy levels are the ellipses with the centre of attraction located at one of the foci.

Analytic rigidity and symbolic dynamics for two-centre billiards  (2609.02310 - Baranzini et al., 2 Sep 2026) in Conjecture (Birkhoff–Poritsky for Kepler billiards), Introduction