Periodic Bounce Orbits of Prescribed Energy
| GEOMETRY/DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS | |
| Topic: | Periodic Bounce Orbits of Prescribed Energy |
| Speaker: | Peter Albers |
| Affiliation: | Purdue University |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 26 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
Periodic bounce orbits are generalizations of billiard trajectories in the presence of a potential. Using an approximation technique by Benci-Giannoni we prove existence of periodic bounce orbits of prescribed energy. At the end of the talk I will sketch very recent work in which we allow much more general Lagrangian systems including magnetic and Finsler billiards.
This is joint work with Marco Mazzucchelli.