The existence of a billiard orbit in the regular hyperbolic simplex

DOI10.1142/S1793525314500022MaRDI QIDQ5414177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oded Badt, Yaron Ostrover

Publication date 2 May 2014

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6496

zbMATH Keywords

billiard dynamicshyperbolic geometryperiodic trajectories

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Abstract: In this note we establish the existence of a (n+1)-periodic billiard trajectory inside an n-dimensional regular simplex in the hyperbolic space, which hits the interior of every facet exactly once.

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