Ergodicity of billiards in polygons with pockets

Nonlinearity

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1095-1102

  Chernov, N ^a   Troubetzkoy, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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EID: 0042221334     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/11/4/019     Document Type: Article

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