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Billiard Lawn Mowers

arXiv:2605.21896

Abstract

We study the Lawn Mowing Problem restricted to periodic billiard paths in the unit square. Given the combinatorial data of a trajectory, we determine the optimal covering radius, and identify the shortest path that covers the square for any fixed blade radius.

11 pages, 3 figures

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