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On the ergodicity of billiards in non-rational polygons

Giovanni Forni

Year: 2015 Journal:   Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

Abstract

We will present a geometric criterion for the ergodicity of the billiard flow in a polygon with non-rational angles and discuss its application to the Diophantine case.

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Ergodicity Mathematics Computer science Combinatorics Statistics

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