On the Dynamics of Inverse Magnetic Billiards
Dynamical Systems
2021-09-01 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Consider a strictly convex set in the plane, and a homogeneous, stationary magnetic field orthogonal to the plane whose strength is on the complement of and inside . The trajectories of a charged particle in this setting are straight lines concatenated with circular arcs of Larmor radius . We examine the dynamics of such a particle and call this inverse magnetic billiards. Comparisons are made to standard Birkhoff billiards and magnetic billiards, as some theorems regarding inverse magnetic billiards are consistent with each of these billiard variants while others are not.
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@article{arxiv.1911.08144,
title = {On the Dynamics of Inverse Magnetic Billiards},
author = {Sean Gasiorek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08144},
year = {2021}
}
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22 pages, 10 figures