Semi-focusing billiards: Hyperbolicity

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-32

  Bunimovich, Leonid A ^a   Del Magno, Gianluigi ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

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EID: 29644443557     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-005-1473-8     Document Type: Article

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