Polygons in billiard orbits

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2011.12.012MaRDI QIDQ413416zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henk Don

Publication date 7 May 2012

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2030

zbMATH Keywords

billiard orbitgeometry of partitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05)

Abstract: We study the geometry of billiard orbits on rectangular billiards. A truncated billiard orbit induces a partition of the rectangle into polygons. We prove that thirteen is a sharp upper bound for the number of different areas of these polygons.

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