Shortest periodic billiard trajectories in convex bodies

DOI10.1007/s00039-004-0458-7zbMath1059.52006MaRDI QIDQ1889810

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 13 December 2004

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-004-0458-7

zbMATH Keywords

shortest trajectory; billiard in a convex body; inradius of a convex body; width (thickness) of a convex body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

52A40: Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry

52A20: Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces)

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