Glancing billiards

DOI10.1017/S0143385700001681zbMATH Open0525.58021OpenAlexW4253391428MaRDI QIDQ3038243FDOQ3038243

Authors: John N. Mather 

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0143385700001681

zbMATH Keywords

trajectoriescausticspositive curvaturenegatively glancingpoint of zero curvaturepositively glancing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99)

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