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A detailed description of topology of integrable billiard systems is given. For elliptical billiards and geodesic billiards on ellipsoid, the corresponding Fomenko graphs are constructed.
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Dragović, V., Radnović, M. Bifurcations of Liouville tori in elliptical billiards. Regul. Chaot. Dyn. 14, 479–494 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1560354709040054
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