The average length of a trajectory in a certain billiard in a flat two-torus

New York Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 303-330

  Boca, F P ^a,b   Gologan, R N ^a,b   Zaharescu, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Romania)

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