Periodic billiard orbits in right triangles

Annales de l'Institut Fourier

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Troubetzkoy, Serge ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Periodic orbits; Polygonal billiard; Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347211056     PISSN: 03730956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5802/aif.2088     Document Type: Article

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