Exterior differential systems and billiards
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I describe work in progress with Baryshnikov and Zharnitsky on periodic billiard orbits that leads one to an exterior differential system (EDS). I then give a brief introduction to EDS illustrated by several examples.
20 pages, appeared in the proceedings from the seventh international conference on geometry, integrability and quantization, Varna 2005
20 pages, appeared in the proceedings from the seventh international conference on geometry, integrability and quantization, Varna 2005