Outer billiard outside regular polygons

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDR010MaRDI QIDQ3093414zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Bédaride, Julien Cassaigne

Publication date 17 October 2011

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5263

zbMATH Keywords

complexityouter billiardregular polygonssymbolic dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Orbit growth in dynamical systems (37C35)

Abstract: We consider outer billiard outside regular convex polygons. We deal with the case of regular polygons with $3,4,5,6,10$ sides, and we describe the symbolic dynamics of the map and compute the complexity of the language.

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