Recurrence and periodic billiard orbits in polygons (Q1876442)
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Recurrence and periodic billiard orbits in polygons (English)
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7 September 2004
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It is shown that almost all billiard trajectories return parallel to themselves for rank 1, ergodic polygons. Applications are given to the existence of periodic trajectories.
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billiard in a polygon
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Poincaré recurrence theorem
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angularly recurrent polygon
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periodic orbit
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