paper

Hausdorff dimension of three-period orbits in Birkhoff billiards

arXiv:1112.2745 · doi:10.1088/0951-7715/25/7/1947

Abstract

We prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the set of three-period orbits in classical billiards is at most one. Moreover, if the set of three-period orbits has Hausdorff dimension one, then it has a tangent line at almost every point.

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