Polygonal billiards with small obstacles

DOI10.1023/A:1023228423836MaRDI QIDQ1284779zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Philipp Hiemer, Vadim Snurnikov

Publication date 23 October 2002

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023228423836

zbMATH Keywords

multi-dimensional obstaclepoint obstaclespolygonal billiardsrational polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Review text

The authors show that in a wide class of polygons it is possible to block all paths between two points by placing a finite number of obstacles into the polygon. They show that the obtained results can be generalized from point obstacles to a small \(\varepsilon\)-neighborhood of points. Moreover, they give several conjectures.

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