Periodic billiard trajectories in regular polygons and closed geodesics on regular polyhedra

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9883-9zbMATH Open1296.53085OpenAlexW2065747185MaRDI QIDQ2452187FDOQ2452187

Authors Dmitry Fuchs 

Publication date 30 May 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-013-9883-9

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsregular polyhedraperiodic billiard trajectories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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