Outer billiards on kites / 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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Schwartz, Richard Evan
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:	Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 171.
Subjects:	Hyperbolic spaces. Singularities (Mathematics) Transformations (Mathematics) Geometry, Plane.
Physical Description:	xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book