Ergodicity of a class of truncated elliptical billiards

Nonlinearity

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1761-1786

  Del Magno, Gianluigi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0035511440     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/14/6/317     Document Type: Article

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