Caustics for inner and outer billiards

DOI10.1007/BF02100183zbMath0839.58036OpenAlexW1970174858MaRDI QIDQ1901805

Eugene Gutkin, Anatole Katok

Publication date: 24 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02100183

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean planeouter billiardinvariant curveclosed convex curvearea preserving twist mapsconvex causticsinner billiardtwo dynamical systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory (37A99)

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