Projective dynamics and an integrable Boltzmann billiard model

Abstract

The aim of this note is to explain the integrability of an integrable Boltzmann billiard model, previously established by Gallavotti and Jauslin [G. Gallavotti and I. Jauslin, A theorem on Ellipses, an integrable system and a theorem of Boltzmann, preprint (2020); arXiv:2008.01955], alternatively via the viewpoint of projective dynamics. We show that the energy of a corresponding spherical problem leads to an additional first integral of the system equivalent to Gallavotti–Jauslin’s first integral. The approach also leads to a family of integrable billiard models in the plane and on the sphere defined through the planar and spherical Kepler–Coulomb problems.