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Are periodic billiard trajectories stable on a manifold with strictly convex boundary?
Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary.
Let $\gamma:S^1\to M$ be a periodic billiard trajectory (geodesic in the interior and reflects specularly at the boundary).
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Birkhoff conjecture about integrable billiards
There is a conjecture by Birkhoff which claims that for a simple closed $C^2$ plane curve $C$, if the billiard ball map is integrable then the curve is an ellipse.
Integrability here might be ...