Outer billiards outside a regular octagon: periodicity of almost all orbits and existence of an aperiodic orbit

DOI10.1134/S1064562418050101MaRDI QIDQ1994086zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. D. Rukhovich

Publication date 1 November 2018

Published in Doklady Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01433

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outer billiardaperiodic orbitregular octagon

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Abstract: The existence of an aperiodic orbit for an outer billiard outside a regular octagon is proved. Additionally, almost all orbits of such an outer billiard are proved to be periodic. All possible periods are explicitly listed.

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