Recurrence and periodic billiard orbits in polygons (Q1876442)

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Recurrence and periodic billiard orbits in polygons
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2097404

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    Recurrence and periodic billiard orbits in polygons (English)
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    7 September 2004
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    It is shown that almost all billiard trajectories return parallel to themselves for rank 1, ergodic polygons. Applications are given to the existence of periodic trajectories.
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    billiard in a polygon
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    Poincaré recurrence theorem
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    angularly recurrent polygon
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    periodic orbit
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