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Rigidity from partial total integrability for outer billiards

Establish a rigidity result for outer billiards under the assumption that total integrability holds only on a proper subset of the exterior phase space.

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Background

Total integrability on the full exterior phase space implies the boundary is an ellipse, by Theorem \ref{thm:total}.

The authors ask whether a similar conclusion can be reached under weaker, localized total integrability assumptions on only part of the phase space.

References

In this section we formulate natural open questions related to the results discussed in previous sections. (2) Can one establish rigidity for total integrability on a part of the phase space?

Integrable Billiards and Related Topics (2510.03790 - Bialy et al., 4 Oct 2025) in Section 9 (Open questions), Subsection Outer billiards, item (2)