Two applications of Jacobi fields to the billiard ball problem

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214455290MaRDI QIDQ1336256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maciej P. Wojtkowski

Publication date 7 November 1994

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214455290

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldbilliard ball problemBialy's theoremRychlik's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85)

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