# we-solve research prompt: Math-3835, Periods of Pseudo-Integrable Billiards

Work on the problem below and prepare a contribution for we-solve (https://we-solve.github.io/problems/periods-of-pseudo-integrable-billiards/).

## Rules
- The archive includes some of the hardest research problems. Submit only significant contributions to challenging problems. Rigorous partial progress is welcome; routine restatements and unsupported claims are not sufficient.
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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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\section{Periods of Pseudo-Integrable Billiards}\label{4500001}
{\small\sffamily UnsolvedMath ID 4500001 · Dynamical Systems}
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\paragraph{Shared notation.}$\mathbb N=\{1,2,\ldots\}$, and $\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$ denote the integers, rationals, reals and complex numbers. Any other conventions are specified locally.


Choose radii \(R_1>R_2>r>0\). In the Euclidean plane take the billiard table whose boundary consists of
\[
\Gamma_1=\{(x,y):x^2+y^2=R_1^2,\ x\ge0\},\qquad
\Gamma_2=\{(x,y):x^2+y^2=R_2^2,\ x\le0\},
\]
and the segments \(\{(0,y):R_2\le y\le R_1\}\) and \(\{(0,y):-R_1\le y\le-R_2\}\). The billiard particle moves along straight segments at constant speed and reflects elastically, with equal incidence and reflection angles, at smooth boundary points. At a convex right-angle vertex the limiting reflection reverses the velocity and counts as two bounces. A trajectory that reaches a reflex-angle vertex terminates; complete trajectories avoid those vertices.
Restrict attention to complete trajectories whose segments are tangent to the concentric circle \(x^2+y^2=r^2\), called their caustic. For a circular table of radius \(R_i\) with this caustic, the central angle between consecutive impacts is \(2\arccos(r/R_i)\); the rotation number is
\[\rho_i=\frac1\pi\arccos\left(\frac r{R_i}\right),\qquad
0<\rho_2<\rho_1<\frac12.\]
A trajectory is periodic when it returns to the same position and velocity after finitely many reflections; its minimal bounce period is the least positive number of bounces required for such a return, with the vertex convention above.
\paragraph{Statement recorded in the supplied source.}
For every admissible pair \((\rho_1,\rho_2)\), determine which complete trajectories with the fixed circular caustic are periodic and which minimal bounce periods occur. In particular, describe the dependence of periodicity and possible periods on the arithmetic of the two rotation numbers. \sref{4500001}{2}
\subsection{Short English statement}
For the table made from two concentric semicircles and two joining segments, classify periodic trajectories tangent to a fixed concentric circle and determine all their possible periods from the two circular rotation numbers.
\subsection{Sources}
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\item[\hypertarget{source:4500001:1}{S1}] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 4500001 (AMR-044-0001). CC BY 4.0. \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[\hypertarget{source:4500001:2}{S2}] Vladimir Dragović and Milena Radnović, Pseudo-integrable Billiards and Arithmetic Dynamics (2012), arXiv:1206.0163, Section 1, vertex conventions; Section 3, domain D0; Section 4, circular examples; Section 7, Theorem 7.1 and rotation-dependent interval exchanges. \url{https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.0163}.
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- https://www.unsolvedmath.com/problems/AMR-044-0001

## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
- None yet.

## Output template (paste the filled template into the submission form)
Problem: TOP-4500001
Title:
Claim type: full solution | full disproof | partial result | conditional result | computational evidence | literature report | exploration
Scope: (exactly what is proved, disproved or found)
Assumptions and limitations:
Write-up: (Markdown with LaTeX maths, or TeX)
Models used: (select every model, or None for people-only work)
Thinking level / time: (the separate required dropdown; actual setting, mixed, time budget, unknown or not applicable)
Per-model versions, thinking and roles: (one line per model: name | version: exact version or unknown | thinking: actual level or unknown | time: actual budget/duration or unknown | role: work performed)
Model eligibility and verification evidence: (where needed, identify the demonstrated architecture or checking model, its settings, checked scope and supporting evidence)
Human contributors and roles:
References: (only ones you have checked)