Towards the Koch Snowflake Fractal Billiard: Computer Experiments and Mathematical Conjectures

zbMath1222.37028arXiv0912.3948MaRDI QIDQ3062304

Robert G. Niemeyer, Michel L. Lapidus

Publication date: 3 January 2011

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3948

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systems; self-similarity; fractal geometry; experimental mathematics; flat surface; fractal billiard; billiard flow; rational polygonal billiards; computer-aided experiments; periodic and quasiperiodic orbits; Fagnano and piecewise Fagnano orbits; Koch snowflake billiard; mathematical conjectures and open problems; prefractal polygonal billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65D18: Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry

37C27: Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows

74H99: Dynamical problems in solid mechanics

58A99: General theory of differentiable manifolds

37A99: Ergodic theory

37C55: Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms

37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

65P99: Numerical problems in dynamical systems

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