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Caustics of Poncelet Polygons and Classical Extremal Polynomials
Vladimir Dragovićab, Milena Radnovićbc a Department for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, 75080 Richardson TX, USA
b Mathematical Institute SANU, Kneza Mihaila 36, 11001 Beograd, p.p. 367, Serbia
c The University of Sydney, School of Mathematics and Statistics,
Carslaw F07, 2006 NSW, Australia
Abstract:
A comprehensive analysis of periodic trajectories of billiards within ellipses in the Euclidean
plane is presented. The novelty of the approach is based on a relationship recently established
by the authors between periodic billiard trajectories and extremal polynomials on the systems
of $d$ intervals on the real line and ellipsoidal billiards in $d$-dimensional space.
Even in the planar case systematically studied in the present paper, it leads to new results
in characterizing $n$ periodic trajectories vs. so-called $n$ elliptic periodic trajectories,
which are $n$-periodic in elliptical coordinates. The characterizations are done both in terms
of the underlying elliptic curve and divisors on it and in terms of polynomial functional
equations, like Pell's equation. This new approach also sheds light on some classical results.
In particular, we connect the search for caustics which generate periodic trajectories with
three classical classes of extremal polynomials on two intervals, introduced by Zolotarev and Akhiezer.
The main classifying tool are winding numbers, for which we provide several interpretations, including
one in terms of numbers of points of alternance of extremal polynomials. The latter implies
important inequality between the winding numbers, which, as a consequence, provides another
proof of monotonicity of rotation numbers. A complete catalog of billiard trajectories with
small periods is provided for $n=3, 4, 5, 6$ along with an effective search for caustics.
As a byproduct, an intriguing connection between Cayley-type conditions and discriminantly
separable polynomials has been observed for all those small periods.
Keywords:
Poncelet polygons, elliptical billiards, Cayley conditions, extremal polynomials, elliptic curves, periodic trajectories, caustics, Pell’s equations, Chebyshev polynomials, Zolotarev polynomials, Akhiezer polynomials, discriminantly separable polynomials
Funding Agency |
Grant Number |
Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development  |
174020 |
Australian Research Council  |
DP190101838 |
This research was supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development, Project 174020 Geometry and Topology of Manifolds, Classical Mechanics, and Integrable Dynamical Systems; and the Australian Research Council, Project DP190101838 Billiards within confocal quadrics and beyond. |
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1134/S1560354719010015
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MSC: 14H70, 41A10, 70H06, 37J35, 26C05 Received: 23.11.2018 Accepted:17.12.2018
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Vladimir Dragović, Milena Radnović, “Caustics of Poncelet Polygons and Classical Extremal Polynomials”, Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 24:1 (2019), 1–35
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