Linearly stable orbits in 3 dimensional billiards

DOI10.1007/BF02096985zbMath0702.58058MaRDI QIDQ915239

Maciej P. Wojtkowski

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov exponents; Jacobi fields; periodic orbit; billiard system in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) with boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53D25: Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry

37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

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