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Billiard Law and Hyperelliptic Curves

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Poncelet Porisms and Beyond

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We continue our investigation from Sections 5.7 and 7.1. Suppose a confocal family of quadrics is given in d-dimensional space. Then every line in the space determines one remarkable Riemann surface.

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Dragović, V., Radnović, M. (2011). Billiard Law and Hyperelliptic Curves. In: Poncelet Porisms and Beyond. Frontiers in Mathematics. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0015-0_8

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