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Chebyshevskii Sbornik, 2019, Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 406–441
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22405/2226-8383-2019-20-2-406-441
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Outer billiards outside regular decagon: periodicity of almost all orbits and existence of aperiodic orbit

F. D. Rukhovich

Moscow Institute of physics and technology (Moscow)
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Abstract: Outer billiards were introduced by B. Neumann in 1950s and became popular in 1970s due to J. Moser; Moser considered outer, or dual, billiard as toy model of celestial mechanics. The problem of stability of the Solar system has such a property that ‘`it’s easy to write $n$ equations of particles motion down but hard to understand this motion intuitively"; according to this, Moser suggested to consider Neumann's outer billiard problem which has the same property.
One of classical examples of dynamical systems is an outer billiard outside regular $n$-gon; in particular, this billiard is connected with problems of existence of aperiodic trajectory and of fullness of periodic points. These problems resolved only for a few number of a special cases.
In case $n=3,4,6$ table is a lattice polygon; as a consequence, there are no aperiodic points, and periodic points form a set of full measure. In 1993, S. Tabachnikov was managed to find an aperiodic points in case of regual pentagon; it was done using renomalization scheme — method which has a fundamental importance in research of self-similar dynamical systems.
According to R. Schwartz, cases which are next by complexity are $n = 10, 8, 12$; in these cases, and also in case $n = 5$, it's possible to build a renomalization scheme which, as R. Scwartz writes, “allows one to give (at least in principle) a complete description of what is going on.”
Later, author was managed to discover self-similar sturctures and build renormalization scheme for cases of regular octagon and dodecagon.
This article is devoted to outer billiard outside regular decagon. The existence of an aperiodic orbit for an outer billiard outside a regular octagon is proved. Additionally, almost all orbits of such an outer billiard are proved to be periodic. All possible periods are explicitly listed. The work is based on classical technology of search and research of renormalization scheme. Periodic structures which occur in case $n = 10$ are similar to periodic structures in case $n = 5$, but has their own features.
Keywords: outer billiards, self-similarity, aperiodic point.
Funding agency Grant number
Russian Science Foundation 17-11-01337
The research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian science Foundation (project 17-11-01337).
Received: 29.11.2018
Accepted: 12.07.2019
Document Type: Article
UDC: 517.938
Language: Russian
Citation: F. D. Rukhovich, “Outer billiards outside regular decagon: periodicity of almost all orbits and existence of aperiodic orbit”, Chebyshevskii Sb., 20:2 (2019), 406–441
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\paper Outer billiards outside regular decagon: periodicity of almost all orbits and existence of aperiodic orbit
\jour Chebyshevskii Sb.
\yr 2019
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\pages 406--441
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\crossref{https://doi.org/10.22405/2226-8383-2019-20-2-406-441}
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