On nonconvex caustics of convex billiards

DOI10.1007/s000170050038zbMath1024.37030OpenAlexW2130037401MaRDI QIDQ1266949

Oliver Knill

Publication date: 24 August 2003

Published in: Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s000170050038

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsgeometry of caustics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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