Periodic billiard paths in right triangles are unstable

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9129-9MaRDI QIDQ2642378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Patrick Hooper

Publication date 20 August 2007

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-007-9129-9

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billiardEuclidean geometryperiodic billiard pathsright triangles

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Review text

The article is concerned with the study of periodic billiard paths in triangles. A path is called stable if it survives small perturbations of the triangle, and unstable otherwise. In the article it is proved that every periodic billiard path in any right triangle is unstable.

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