Billiards in polygons

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(86)90062-XzbMath0593.58016OpenAlexW1998371866MaRDI QIDQ5903131

Eugene Gutkin

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(86)90062-x

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicitytopological transitivityexistence of periodic orbitsbilliards in polygonsElliptic and hyperbolic billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory (37A99) One-parameter continuous families of measure-preserving transformations (28D10)

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