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Sets of Bounded Remainder for the Billiard on a Square

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Authors

Ida Aichinger Affiliation:
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Meyrin, Switzerland
and Gerhard Larcher Affiliation:
University Linz, Linz, Austria


Abstract

We study sets of bounded remainder for the billiard on the unit square. In particular, we note that every convex set S whose boundary is twice continuously differentiable with positive curvature at every point, is a bounded remainder set for almost all starting angles a and every starting point x. We show that this assertion for a large class of sets does not hold for all irrational starting angles a.


Keywords

Bounded remainder set, billiard path, discrepancy, distribution modulo 1.


Citation

Aichinger, I. & Larcher, G. (2018). Sets of bounded remainder for the billiard on a square. Uniform Distribution Theory, 13(2), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.2478/udt-2018-0011

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