Dual billiards (Q2577171)

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    19 December 2005
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    The paper gives a survey on the development of dual (or outer) billiards since the introduction of the notion by \textit{J. Moser} [Is the solar system stable? Math. Intell. 1, 65--71 (1978)]. The following topics are addressed: the area-preserving property, how to recover a billiard from an invariant curve, duality between inner and outer billiards, behaviour at infinity and boundedness results for billiards given by rational and by quasi-rational polygons, dual billiards in the hyperbolic plane, and, very briefly, multidimensional dual billiards.
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    dual billiard
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    outer billiard
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    antibilliard
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    rational polygons
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    quasi-rational polygons
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