Spaces of pseudo-Riemannian geodesics and pseudo-Euclidean billiards
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Many classical facts in Riemannian geometry have their pseudoRiemannian analogs. For instance, the spaces of space-like and timelike geodesics on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold have natural symplectic structures (just like in the Riemannian case), while the space of light-like geodesics has a natural contact structure. We discuss the geometry of these structures in detail, as well as introduce and study pseudo-Euclidean billiards. In particular, we prove pseudo-Euclidean analogs of the Jacobi-Chasles theorems and show the integrability of the billiard in the ellipsoid and the geodesic flow on the ellipsoid in a pseudo-Euclidean space.
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