Periodic Orbits for Billiards on an Equilateral Triangle

DOI10.1080/00029890.2008.11920555MaRDI QIDQ3606576zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrew M. Baxter, Ronald N. Umble

Publication date 26 February 2009

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509292

zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbittrajectoryunfoldingFagnano orbitbilliards on equilateral triangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25)

Abstract: We give a complete solution of the following problem: Find, classify and count the (classes of) periodic orbits on an equilateral triangle. We prove that Fagnano's period 3 orbit is the only periodic orbit with odd period. A periodic orbit is either prime or some d-fold iterate thereof. We count prime and iterate periodic orbits of period $2n$ via a bijection with a certain partition of $n$, then count only prime orbits using the prime factorization of $n$.

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