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.