Geodesics on an ellipsoid in Minkowski space

zbMath1144.37013arXiv0705.0188MaRDI QIDQ2425368

Daniel Genin, Boris A. Khesin, Sergei Tabachnikov

Publication date: 29 April 2008

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0188

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geodesicsbilliard dynamical systems

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