Symplectic Dynamics Seminar

On Conjugacy of Convex Billiards
Vadim Kaloshin
Pennsylvania State University; Member, School of Mathematics
Date & Time: 
Wed, 01/25/2012 - 14:00 - 15:00
Location: 
S-101

There are indications that in the 80s Guillemin posed a question: If billiard maps are conjugate, can we say that domains are the same up to isometry?
On one side, we show that conjugacy of different domains can't be C^1 near the boundary. In particular, billiard maps of the circle and an ellipse are both analytically integrable, but not C^1 conjugate. On the other side, if conjugate near the boundary s smoother, then domains are the same up to isometry.
(This is joint work with A. Sorrentino.)