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Rigidity of Smooth Billiards with a Continuous Caustic Collar

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We prove that a smooth strictly convex planar billiard with positive curvature is an ellipse whenever a full neighborhood of its boundary is continuously foliated by smooth closed convex caustics. No differentiability across the leaves is assumed. This resolves the near-boundary Birkhoff conjecture in the stated smooth class.

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