Abstract
This paper deals with Hopf type rigidity for convex billiards on surfaces of constant curvature. I prove that the only convex billiard without conjugate points on the hyperbolic plane or on the hemisphere is a circular billiard.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3903-3913 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series A |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2013 |
Keywords
- Billiards
- Birkhoff conjecture
- Conjugate points
- Integrable systems