Local instability of orbits in polygonal and polyhedral billiards

DOI10.1007/BF02099308zbMath0924.58043MaRDI QIDQ1894868

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 31 August 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsgeodesic flowssymbolic dynamicstopological entropylocal instabilitynon-periodic points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Ergodic theory (37A99) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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