Chess billiards

DOI10.1007/S00283-021-10150-1MaRDI QIDQ6114816zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arnaldo Nogueira, Serge Troubetzkoy

Publication date 12 July 2023

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14773

zbMATH Keywords

chess billiardcircle mapperiodic points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms (37C55) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10)

Abstract: We show the chess billiard map, which was introduced in [HM] in order to study a generalization of the $n$-Queens problem in chess, is a circle homeomorphism. We give a survey of some of the known results on circle homeomorphisms, and apply them to this map. We prove a number of new results which give answers to some of the open questions posed in [HM].

Recommendations

• A billiards-like dynamical system for attacking chess pieces
• Billiards and Rational Periodic Directions in Polygons
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 780179
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 525209
• Note on the periodic points of the billiard

Cites work

• A billiards-like dynamical system for attacking chess pieces
• An implicit function theorem: Comment
• Feuilletages des surfaces
• From Hilbert's superposition problem to dynamical systems
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 776267 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3087105 (Why is no real title available?)
• Pseudo-Riemannian geodesics and billiards
• Rational rotation numbers for homeomorphisms with several break-type singularities
• The Dirichlet Problem for a Hyperbolic Equation

Cited in

(5)

• Pseudo-billiards
• A billiards-like dynamical system for attacking chess pieces
• Open problems on billiards and geometric optics
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5886035 (Why is no real title available?)
• Internal waves in a 2D subcritical channel

This page was built for publication: Chess billiards

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6114816)