Realization of Local Contactomorphisms

Determine whether every local contactomorphism of a projective contact manifold can be realized as an outer contact billiard map over a suitable table.

Background

The paper proves that an outer contact billiard correspondence is a contactomorphism whenever it is a local diffeomorphism. The converse realization problem asks whether arbitrary local contact dynamics can arise from the characteristic-line and harmonic-conjugation construction associated with some table.

References

Can every local contactomorphism be realized as an outer contact billiard map?

Outer Contact Billiards  (2608.19393 - Caliz et al., 19 Aug 2026) in Section 6, “Open questions,” item 1