Law of proliferation of periodic orbits in pseudointegrable billiards
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 47 (2) , R776-R779
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.47.r776
Abstract
We prove that the periodic-orbit counting function, a measure of the rate of proliferation of periodic orbits, for a barrier billiard and the π/3-rhombus billiard is of the form +bx+c, where x is the length (equivalently, period) up to which periodic orbits are counted and a,b,c are system-specific constants. The generality of our arguments strongly suggests that the law of proliferation given here is a representation of general truth about two-dimensional plane-polygonal billiards.
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