Linearly stable orbits in 3 dimensional billiards

DOI10.1007/BF02096985MaRDI QIDQ915239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maciej P. Wojtkowski

Publication date 1990

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02096985

zbMATH Keywords

billiard system in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) with boundariesJacobi fieldsLyapunov exponentsperiodic orbit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Review text

The author constructs linearly stable periodic orbits in a class of billiard systems in 3-dimensional domains with boundaries containing semispheres arbitrarily far apart. He shows that the results about planar billiard systems in domains with convex boundaries which have nonvanishing Lyapunov exponents cannot be easily extended to 3 dimensions.

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