Boris Khesin
University of Toronto
26 octobre 2007 de 16 h 00 à 18 h 00 (heure de Montréal/HNE) Sur place
Colloque par Boris Khesin (University of Toronto)
In pseudo-Riemannian geometry the spaces of space-like and time-like 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. Furthermore, the space of all geodesics has a structure of a Jacobi manifold. In the talk I will describe the geometry of these structures, define pseudo-Euclidean billiards and discuss their properties. In particular, I will outline complete integrability of the billiard in the ellipsoid and the geodesic flow on the ellipsoid in pseudo-Euclidean space; these results are pseudo-Euclidean counterparts to the classical theorems of Euclidean geometry that go back to Jacobi and Chasles.
Adresse
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420