Nowhere dispersing 3D billiards with non-vanishing Lyapunov exponents

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 729-757

  Bunimovich, Leonid A ^a   Rehacek, Jan ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0031549891     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050227     Document Type: Article

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