@article{2f8b437402ab4268b033be4b7d393c54,
title = "Billiards in ellipses revisited",
abstract = "We prove some recent experimental observations of Dan Reznik concerning periodic billiard orbits in ellipses. For example, the sum of cosines of the angles of a periodic billiard polygon remains constant in the 1-parameter family of such polygons (that exist due to the Poncelet porism). In our proofs, we use geometric and complex analytic methods.",
author = "Arseniy Akopyan and Richard Schwartz and Serge Tabachnikov",
note = "Funding Information: This paper would not be written if not for Dan Reznik{\textquoteright}s curiosity and persistence; we are very grateful to him. We also thank R. Garcia and J. Koiller for interesting discussions. It is a pleasure to thank the Mathematical Institute of the University of Heidelberg for its stimulating atmosphere. ST thanks Misha Bialy for interesting discussions and the Tel Aviv University for its invariable hospitality. We are grateful to the referee for useful suggestions. Funding Information: AA was supported by European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 78818 Alpha). RS is supported by NSF Grant DMS-1807320. ST was supported by NSF Grants DMS-1510055, DMS-2005444, and SFB/TRR 191. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s40879-020-00426-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
pages = "1313--1327",
journal = "European Journal of Mathematics",
issn = "2199-675X",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
number = "4",
}