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高维凸台球的最大化轨道

Maximizing orbits for higher dimensional convex billiards

Michael Bialy

摘要:

本文的主要结果是:对于高维凸台球,与二维情形不同,对于边界上的每一点和每一个$n$,在与边界的第$n$次碰撞时,总是存在发展共轭点的台球轨迹。我们将解释这是高维台球轨道的下列变分性质的结果。如果轨道的一段是局部最大化的,那么它不能太靠近边界。这一事实由长度泛函的二阶变分公式得出。事实证明,这个公式对于“纵向”和“横向”变化的表现是不同的。

英文摘要:

The main result of this paper is, that for convex billiards in higher dimensions, in contrast with 2D case, for every point on the boundary and for every $n$ there always exist billiard trajectories developing conjugate points at the $n$-th collision with the boundary. We shall explain that this is a consequence of the following variational property of the billiard orbits in higher dimension. If a segment of an orbit is locally maximizing, then it can not pass too close to the boundary. This fact follows from the second variation formula for the Length functional. It turns out that this formula behaves differently with respect to "longitudinal" and "transversal" variations.

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