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The Poincar\'e problem is a model of two-dimensional internal waves in stable-stratified fluid. The chess billiard flow, a variation of a typical billiard flow, drives the formation behind and describes the evolution of these internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Sally Zhu , Zhenhao Li

We consider the dual billiard map with respect to a smooth strictly convex closed hypersurface in linear 2m-dimensional symplectic space and prove that it has at least 2m distinct 3-periodic orbits.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Serge Tabachnikov

We discuss the propagation of kinetic energy through billiard balls fixed in place along a one-dimensional segment. The number of billiard balls is assumed to be large but finite and we assume kinetic energy propagates following the usual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Krzysztof Burdzy , Jeremy G. Hoskins , Stefan Steinerberger

We introduce a new family of one-player games, involving the movement of coins from one configuration to another. Moves are restricted so that a coin can be placed only in a position that is adjacent to at least two other coins. The goal of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Helena A. Verrill

The dynamics in three-dimensional billiards leads, using a Poincar\'e section, to a four-dimensional map which is challenging to visualize. By means of the recently introduced 3D phase-space slices an intuitive representation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-27 Markus Firmbach , Steffen Lange , Roland Ketzmerick , Arnd Bäcker

We consider semigroup dynamical systems defined by several polynomials over a number field $\mathbb{K}$, and the orbit (tree) they generate at a given point. We obtain finiteness results for the set of preperiodic points of such systems…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Alina Ostafe , Marley Young

We call internal-wave billiard the dynamical system of a point particle that moves freely inside a planar domain (the table) and is reflected by its boundary according to this rule: reflections are standard Fresnel reflections but with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marco Lenci , Claudio Bonanno , Giampaolo Cristadoro

We consider a multi-dimensional billiard system in an (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space, the direct product of the "horizontal" hyperplane and the "vertical" line. The hypersurface that determines the system is assumed to be smooth and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Dmitry Treschev

A class of n-dimensional Poisson systems reducible to an unperturbed harmonic oscillator shall be considered. In such case, perturbations leaving invariant a given symplectic leaf shall be investigated. Our purpose will be to analyze the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Isaac A. García , Benito Hernández-Bermejo

In this paper, we extend the slow divergence-integral from slow-fast systems, due to De Maesschalck, Dumortier and Roussarie, to smooth systems that limit onto piecewise smooth ones as $\epsilon\rightarrow 0$. In slow-fast systems, the slow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-14 R. Huzak , K. Uldall Kristiansen

In this paper, we delve into the dynamical properties of a class of three-dimensional logistic ecological models. By using the complete discriminant theory of polynomials, we first give a topological classification for each fixed point and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Yujiang Chen , Lin Li , Lingling Liu , Zhiheng Yu

We characterise the eigenfunctions of an equilateral triangle billiard in terms of its nodal domains. The number of nodal domains has a quadratic form in terms of the quantum numbers, with a non-trivial number-theoretic factor. The patterns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Rhine Samajdar , Sudhir R. Jain

We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for periodic and for elliptic periodic trajectories of billiards within an ellipse in the Minkowski plane in terms of an underlining elliptic curve. We provide several examples of periodic and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Anani Komla Adabrah , Vladimir Dragovic , Milena Radnovic

We propose in these notes a list of some old and new questions related to quasi-periodic dynamics. A main aspect of quasi-periodic dynamics is the crucial influence of arithmetics on the dynamical features, with a strong duality in general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Bassam Fayad , Raphaël Krikorian

In this paper, we study the problem of limit cycle bifurcation in two piecewise polynomial systems of Li\'enard type with multiple parameters. Based on the developed Melnikov function theory, we obtain the maximum number of limit cycles of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Lijuan Sheng

We study chaotic properties of eigenstates depending on the degree of complexity in boundaries of a 2D periodic billiard. Main attention is paid to the situation when the motion of a classical particle is strongly chaotic. Our approach…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez , G. A. Luna-Acosta , F. M. Izrailev

We report the experimental measurement of the winding number in an unitary chiral quantum walk. Fundamentally, the spin-orbit coupling in discrete time quantum walks is implemented via birefringent crystal collinearly cut based on…

We describe conditions under which higher-dimensional billiard models in bounded, convex regions are fully chaotic, generalizing the Bunimovich stadium to dimensions above two. An example is a three-dimensional stadium bounded by a cylinder…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Thomas Gilbert , David P. Sanders

A dynamical system with discrete time is studied by means of algebraic geometry. The system admits a reduction that is interpreted as a classical field theory in 2+1-dimensional wholly discrete space-time. The integrals of motion of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Korepanov

We study the computational complexity of decomposing finite discrete dynamical systems (FDDSs) in terms of the semiring operations of alternative and synchronous execution, which is useful for the analysis of discrete phenomena in science…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Antonio E. Porreca , Marius Rolland