No planar billiard possesses an open set of quadrilateral trajectories

Alexey Glutsyuk; Yury Kudryashov

doi:10.3934/jmd.2012.6.287

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2012, Volume 6, Issue 3: 287-326. Doi: 10.3934/jmd.2012.6.287

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No planar billiard possesses an open set of quadrilateral trajectories

Alexey Glutsyuk^1, and
Yury Kudryashov^2,

1.
CNRS, Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, M.R., École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, 69364, Lyon 07
2.
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow 101000

Received: January 2011

Revised: May 2012

Published: September 2012

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The article is devoted to a particular case of Ivriĭ's conjecture on periodic orbits of billiards. The general conjecture states that the set of periodic orbits of the billiard in a domain with smooth boundary in the Euclidean space has measure zero. In this article we prove that for any domain with piecewise $C^4$-smooth boundary in the plane the set of quadrilateral trajectories of the corresponding billiard has measure zero.

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