Billiards in polygons (Q5903131)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3953884
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3953884 |
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Billiards in polygons (English)
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1986
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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.
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billiards in polygons
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Elliptic and hyperbolic billiards
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ergodicity
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topological transitivity
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existence of periodic orbits
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