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Billiards in convex bodies with acute angles

Metric Geometry 2015-12-31 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the existence of closed billiard trajectories in not necessarily smooth convex bodies. In particular, we show that if a body KRdK\subset \mathbb{R}^d has the property that the tangent cone of every non-smooth point qKq\in \partial K is acute (in a certain sense) then there is a closed billiard trajectory in KK.

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@article{arxiv.1506.06014,
  title  = {Billiards in convex bodies with acute angles},
  author = {Arseniy Akopyan and Alexey Balitskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06014},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures

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