Symbolic dynamics II. The stadium billiard

1993/01/19 by Kai T. Hansen, Hansen, Kai T.
Physics and Astronomy · #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.chao-dyn/9301004

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Abstract

We construct a well ordered symbolic dynamics plane for the stadium billiard. In this symbolic plane the forbidden and the allowed orbits are separated by a monotone pruning front, and allowed orbits can be systematically generated by sequences of approximate finite grammars.

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