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Horns in Billiards

Dynamical Systems 2026-02-26 v1

Abstract

We show that, like cusps, horns in billiards expel every trajectory after finitely many collisions. We further produce an adiabatic invariant.

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@article{arxiv.2602.21347,
  title  = {Horns in Billiards},
  author = {David de Frutos Ostrander and Boris Hasselblatt and Mark Levi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21347},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:50:43.331Z