A proof of Culter's theorem on the existence of periodic orbits in polygonal outer billiards

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9196-YMaRDI QIDQ2467190zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 21 January 2008

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1003

zbMATH Keywords

outer billiard mapperiodic trajectory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27)

Abstract: We discuss a recent result by C. Culter: every polygonal outer billiard has a periodic trajectory.

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