On pinned billiard balls and foldings

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2023.72.9350MaRDI QIDQ6076367zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

collisionsbilliardfoldingsgraph networkpinned balls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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