Billiards in polygons (Q5903131): Difference between revisions

This paper surveys the results on billiards in polygons, as a typical example for the parabolic case. (Elliptic and hyperbolic billiards will be discussed in a forthcoming survey paper by A. Katok and M. Wojtkowski.) The main questions of interest are ergodicity, topological transitivity and existence of periodic orbits. The results on rational and almost integrable billiards are contained in section 4, those for irrational billiards in section 5.