Circular billiard tables, conjugate loci, and a cardioid (Q1407957)
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Circular billiard tables, conjugate loci, and a cardioid (English)
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14 September 2003
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The author uses a circular billiard for explaining the main concepts of Riemannian geometry such as conjugate loci, exponential map, the Morse theory on path spaces, etc.
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circular billiard
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conjugate loci
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exponential map
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Riemannian geometry
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Morse theory
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