Outer Billiards on Kites (Am-171)

by Richard Schwartz and Richard Evan Schwartz

Outer billiards is a basic dynamical system defined relative to a convex shape in the plane. B. H. Neumann introduced this system in the 1950s, and J. Moser popularized it as a toy model for celestial mechanics. All along, the so-called Moser-Neumann question has been one of the central problems in the field. This question asks whether or not one can have an outer billiards system with an unbounded orbit. The Moser-Neumann question is an idealized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691142491
• ISBN13: 9780691142494
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"