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Magnetic billiards: Non-integrability for strong magnetic field; Gutkin type examples

We consider magnetic billiards under a strong constant magnetic field. The purpose of this paper is two-folded. We examine the question of existence of polynomial integral of billiard magnetic flow. We succeed to reduce this question to algebraic geometry test on existence of polynomial integral, which shows polynomial non-integrability for all but finitely many values of the magnitude. In the second part of the paper we construct examples of magnetic billiards which have the so called $δ$-Gutkin property, meaning that any Larmor circle entering the domain with angle $δ$ exits the domain with the same angle $δ$. For ordinary Birkhoff billiard in the plane such examples were introduced by E. Gutkin and are very explicit. Our construction of Gutkin magnetic billiards relies on beautiful examples by F.Wegner of the so called Zindler curves, which are related to the problem of floating bodies in equilibrium, which goes back to S.Ulam. We prove that Gutkin magnetic billiard can be obtained as a parallel curve to a Wegner curve. Wegner curves can be written by elliptic functions in polar coordinates so the construction of magnetic Gutkin billiard is rather explicit but much more complicated.