On pinned billiard balls and foldings

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2023.72.9350zbMATH Open1530.37048arXiv1807.08320MaRDI QIDQ6076367FDOQ6076367

Authors: Jayadev S. Athreya, K. Burdzy, Mauricio A. Duarte 

Publication date: 21 September 2023

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider systems of "pinned balls," i.e., balls that have fixed positions and pseudo-velocities. Pseudo-velocities change according to the same rules as those for velocities of totally elastic collisions between moving balls. The times of collisions for different pairs of pinned balls are chosen in an exogenous way. We give an explicit upper bound for the maximum number of pseudo-collisions for a system of $n$ pinned balls in a $d$-dimensional space, in terms of $n$, $d$ and the locations of ball centers. As a first step, we study foldings, i.e., mappings that formalize the idea of folding a piece of paper along a crease.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08320

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zbMATH Keywords

collisionsbilliardfoldingsgraph networkpinned balls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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