Billiard transformations of parallel flows: a periscope theorem

DOI10.1016/j.geomphys.2016.04.006zbMath1373.49053arXiv1602.07961OpenAlexW2284749710MaRDI QIDQ2400276

Alexander Plakhov, Dmitrij V. Treshev, Sergei Tabachnikov

Publication date: 28 August 2017

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07961

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsgeometrical opticsimagingfreeform surfacesmirror reflections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in solid mechanics (37N15) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Optimality conditions for solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.) (49K30) Geometric optics (78A05)

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