A parity problem on the free path length of a billiard in the unit square with pockets

DOI10.7169/FACM/1229442614MaRDI QIDQ873766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emre Alkan, Andrew Ledoan, Alexandru Zaharescu

Publication date 20 March 2007

Published in Functiones et Approximatio. Commentarii Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.facm/1229442614

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsFarey fractionsfree path lengthKloosterman sumsperiodic Lorentz gasvisible points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Farey sequences; the sequences (1^k, 2^k, dots) (11B57) Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations (11L05) Lattice points in specified regions (11P21) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Review text

The authors consider the problem on the length of the linear trajectory of a two-dimensional Euclidean billiard in the unit square. A result on short intervals about the moments of the free path length is derived.

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