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On Estimates of the Number of Collisions for Billiards in Polyhedral Angles

Lizhou Chen

math.DSarXiv:math/0610257

Abstract

We obtain an upper bound of the number of collisions of any billiard trajectory in a polyhedral angle in terms of the minimal eigenvalue of a positive definite matrix which characterizes the angle. Elements of the matrix are scalar products between the unit normal vectors of faces of the angle.

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