Mathematics Problem Archive

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

Fix an ellipse with center $O$ and foci $f_1,f_2$, and let $P=(P_i)_{i=1}^N$ range over its Poncelet family of $N$-periodic billiard orbits tangent to...

For a Birkhoff billiard inside a closed smooth strictly convex hypersurface $S\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, let $T$ act on the space $\mathbb{A}$ of oriented ...

Let $\gamma$ be a smooth convex plane billiard table symmetric about an axis $l$, and let $C$ be a convex caustic. Must $C$ be symmetric about $l$? Pr...

Suppose a bounded strictly convex planar billiard has two nested closed caustics such that the smaller caustic is itself a caustic for the billiard in...

Let $C\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ be a curve and translate it through an $\varepsilon$-square lattice, recording a click whenever it meets a lattice point. C...

For an oval $\gamma$, the area spectrum of its outer billiard is the set of areas of the circumscribed polygons formed by periodic outer-billiard traj...

Can polynomial tunings be constructed by quasiconformal surgery?...

For a fixed polynomial $P_1$, does the polynomial obtained by tuning $P_1$ with $P_2$ vary continuously with $P_2$?...