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Phys. Rev. E 56, 1556–1560 (1997)

Symbolic dynamics of the stadium billiard

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Wei-Mou Zheng
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, China

Received 15 January 1997; published in the issue dated August 1997

By viewing the stadium billiard as a map on the annulus, codes are introduced for both the full and half stadium based on the lift. By means of such codes, the symbolic dynamics of stadium is described. The relation of the codes to other codes is discussed.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1556
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1556
PACS:
05.45.+b, 03.20.+i