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Main Authors: Villanueva, Carlos, Zhang, Pengfei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02093
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Table of Contents:
  • We investigate the fundamental properties of Minkowski billiards and introduce a new coordinate system $(s,u)$ on the phase space $\mathcal{M}$. In this coordinate system, the Minkowski billiard map $\mathcal{T}$ preserves the standard area form $ω= ds \wedge du$. We then classify the periodic orbits of Minkowski billiards with period $2$ and derive formulas for the twist coefficient $τ_1$ for elliptic periodic orbits, expressed in terms of the geometric characteristics of the billiard table. Additionally, we analyze the stability properties of these elliptic periodic orbits.