On the multiplicity of non-iterated periodic billiard trajectories

DOI10.2140/PJM.2011.252.181MaRDI QIDQ650130zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Mazzucchelli

Publication date 25 November 2011

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5593

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theorybilliardsiteration of periodic trajectories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: We introduce the iteration theory for periodic billiard trajectories in a compact and convex domain of the Euclidean space, and we apply it to establish a multiplicity result for non-iterated trajectories.

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