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Billiards in a circle with trajectories circumscribing a triangle

Dynamical Systems 2023-12-27 v2

Abstract

Dogru and Tabachnikov in 2003 explored the polygonal outer billiard map in the hyperbolic plane and introduced a class of convex polygons called 'large'. They particularly sought conditions for a triangle to be classified as large. For a large triangle, there exist two triangles that are circumscribed around it and inscribed within the unit circle. In the Klein-Beltrami model of hyperbolic geometry, we reformulate the conditions for a triangle to be classified as 'large' in a more Euclidean geometric manner. A proposed measure of its Euclidean geometric size when the triangle is considered 'large' is introduced, and an evaluation of this measure is conducted. We also provide an explicit formula for an isosceles triangle.

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@article{arxiv.2111.04495,
  title  = {Billiards in a circle with trajectories circumscribing a triangle},
  author = {Takeo Noda and Shin-ichi Yasutomi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04495},
  year   = {2023}
}

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