Topology of cylic configuration spaces and periodic trajectories of multi-dimensional billiards

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(01)00021-0zbMath1006.37038arXivmath/9911226OpenAlexW2103080060WikidataQ56555017 ScholiaQ56555017MaRDI QIDQ1599628

Michael S. Farber, Sergei Tabachnikov

Publication date: 10 March 2003

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911226

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyequivariant Morse theoryLjusternik-Shnirelman theorymathematical billiards

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