Dynamical Systems Seminar
Vadim KaloshinUniversity of Maryland
Ellipses are the only integrable billiard domains near the circle
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 1:30pm
Malott 224
The classical Birkhoff conjecture says that the only integrable convex domains are circles and ellipses. In the talk we show that this conjecture is true for small perturbations of the circle. This is joint work with A. Avila and J. De Simoi.