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Local Rigidity for Symplectic Billiards.

Daniel Tsodikovich¹

¹Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Maria Gugging, Austria.

Journal of Geometric Analysis

|August 11, 2025

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Researchers proved that domains near ellipses with a rationally integrable symplectic billiard map must be ellipses. This demonstrates local rigidity for symplectic billiard integrability, extending prior work on Birkhoff billiards.

Keywords:

Rigidity birkhoff conjecture symplectic billiards

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Area of Science:

Dynamical Systems
Geometric Mechanics
Mathematical Physics

Background:

Symplectic billiards are dynamical systems with applications in classical mechanics.
Integrability of dynamical systems is a key concept, determining predictable long-term behavior.
Previous work established rigidity results for Birkhoff billiards.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the local rigidity of integrable symplectic billiards.
To determine if domains close to ellipses with integrable symplectic billiard maps are necessarily ellipses.

Main Methods:

The study employs techniques from differential geometry and dynamical systems theory.
It analyzes the properties of the symplectic billiard map near elliptical domains.
The proof focuses on establishing a local rigidity result.

Main Results:

A local rigidity result for the integrability of symplectic billiards is demonstrated.
It is proven that any domain sufficiently close to an ellipse, admitting a rationally integrable symplectic billiard map, must itself be an ellipse.
This finding extends the concept of rigidity to symplectic billiards.

Conclusions:

The study confirms that for symplectic billiards, near-elliptical domains with rational integrability are indeed ellipses.
This result contributes to the understanding of integrability conditions in classical mechanics.
It highlights the robustness of elliptical shapes under specific integrability constraints in dynamical systems.