About ergodicity in the family of lima̧on billiards

Nonlinearity

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1673-1687

  Dullin, Holger R ^a   Bäcker, Arnd ^b,c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0035511359     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/14/6/314     Document Type: Article

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