Integrability of Billiards Inside Cones as a Discrete-Time Hamiltonian System

Abstract

In this paper, we continue to study billiards inside cones $K\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ over strictly convex closed $C^3$ manifolds with non-degenerate second fundamental form. Recently we proved that the billiard is superintegrable, i.e., the billiard admits first integrals whose values uniquely determine all billiard trajectories. In this paper we prove that this billiard system admits $n-1$ independent first integrals in involution. Consequently, the system is completely integrable as a discrete-time Hamiltonian system. This provides an example of an integrable billiard where the billiard table is neither a quadric nor consists of pieces of quadrics.