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Billiard trajectories inside Cones
Published 4 Feb 2025 in math.DS and math.DG | (2502.01997v1)
Abstract: Recently it was proved that every billiard trajectory inside a $C3$ convex cone has a finite number of reflections. Here, by a $C3$ convex cone, we mean a cone whose section with some hyperplane is a strictly convex closed $C3$ submanifold of the hyperplane with nondegenerate second fundamental form. In this paper, we prove the existence of $C2$ convex cones admitting billiard trajectories with infinitely many reflections in finite time. We also estimate the number of reflections of billiard trajectories in elliptic cones in $\mathbb{R}3$ using two first integrals.
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