A survey on polynomial in momenta integrals for billiard problems

In this paper, we give a short survey of recent results on the algebraic version of the Birkhoff conjecture for integrable billiards on surfaces of constant curvature. We also discuss integrable magnetic billiards. As a new application of the algebraic technique, we study the existence of polynomial integrals for the two-sided magnetic billiards introduced by Kozlov and Polikarpov. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Finite dimensional integrable systems: new trends and methods’.