Invariant Structures for Non-Harmonic Reflection Rules

Identify any preserved geometric structure for contact billiards defined by replacing the harmonic cross-ratio value with a fixed value different from minus one.

Background

The paper proves that the harmonic value is uniquely compatible with preservation of the contact structure among the proposed reflection rules. It asks whether alternative fixed cross-ratio rules preserve some other structure despite failing to preserve the contact distribution.

References

By Corollary \ref{corr:Uniqueness}, we know such billiards do not preserve the contact structure. Is there any preserved structure?

Outer Contact Billiards  (2608.19393 - Caliz et al., 19 Aug 2026) in Section 6, “Open questions,” item 9