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On algebraically integrable outer billiards

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 2000
Primary: 37J30
Secondary: 37E40
Milestones
Received: 1 August 2007
Revised: 24 August 2007
Accepted: 27 August 2007
Published: 1 March 2008
Authors
Serge Tabachnikov
Department of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
United States
www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/