Billiards with Bombs
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Publication:2802008
DOI10.1080/10586458.2015.1050130zbMATH Open1359.37087arXiv1506.00683OpenAlexW3105900779MaRDI QIDQ2802008FDOQ2802008
Publication date: 22 April 2016
Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In this paper, we define a variant of billiards in which the ball bounces around a square grid erasing walls as it goes. We prove that there exist periodic tunnels with arbitrarily large period from any possible starting point, that there exist non-periodic tunnels from any possible starting point, and that there are versions of the problem for which the same starting point and initial direction result in periodic tunnels of arbitrarily large period. We conjecture that there exist starting conditions which do not lead to tunnels, justify the conjecture with simulation evidence, and discuss the difficulty of proving it.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00683
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