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Polygons in billiard orbits

Number Theory 2013-10-08 v1

Abstract

We study the geometry of billiard orbits on rectangular billiards. A truncated billiard orbit induces a partition of the rectangle into polygons. We prove that thirteen is a sharp upper bound for the number of different areas of these polygons.

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@article{arxiv.1106.2030,
  title  = {Polygons in billiard orbits},
  author = {Henk Don},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.2030},
  year   = {2013}
}

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14 pages

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