Elliptic Billiards and Ellipses Associated to the 3-Periodic Orbits

DOI10.1080/00029890.2019.1593087zbMath1444.37023OpenAlexW2947064552WikidataQ127810468 ScholiaQ127810468MaRDI QIDQ5378533

Ronaldo A. Garcia

Publication date: 3 June 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2019.1593087

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsePoncelet's theoremelliptic billiards3-periodic orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms (37C55) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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