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Serge Tabachnikov

Vol. 235 (2008), No. 1, 89-92
Abstract

We prove that if the outer billiard map around a plane oval is algebraically integrable in a certain nondegenerate sense then the oval is an ellipse.

Keywords

outer billiards, dual billiards, integrability, Birkhoff conjecture

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 37J30

Secondary: 37E40

Authors
Serge Tabachnikov
Department of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
United States