Outer billiards with contraction: regular polygons

Abstract: We study outer billiards with contraction outside regular polygons. For regular

n

-gons with

n = 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

, and

12

, we show that as the contraction rate approaches

1

, dynamics of the system converges, in a certain sense, to that of the usual outer billiards map. These are precisely the values of

n g e q 3

with

[m a t h b b Q (e^{2 p i i / n}) : m a t h b b Q] l e q 2

. Then we discuss how such convergence may fail in the case of

n = 7

.

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