$\lambda$-stability of periodic billiard orbits
Dynamical Systems
2016-11-23 v1
Abstract
We introduce a new notion of stability for periodic orbits in polygonal billiards. We say that a periodic orbit of a polygonal billiard is -stable if there is a periodic orbit for the corresponding pinball billiard which converges to it as 1. This notion of stability is unrelated to the notion introduced by Galperin, Stepin and Vorobets. We give sufficient and necessary conditions for a periodic orbit to be -stable and prove that the set of d-gons having at most finite number of -stable periodic orbits is dense is the space of d-gons. Moreover, we also determine completely the -stable periodic orbits in integrable polygons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.07241,
title = {$\lambda$-stability of periodic billiard orbits},
author = {José Pedro Gaivão and Serge Troubetzkoy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07241},
year = {2016}
}