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Cantori for the stadium billiard
1Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0526.
Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
Although almost all orbits in the stadium billiard are "chaotic," there are many regular orbits as well-the ordered periodic orbits and cantori. The symmetries of the stadium are exploited to find maximizing and saddle periodic orbits. Cantori are maximizing quasiperiodic orbits; they have caustics. Transport in the stadium should be impeded by cantori, just as in any twist map; this is particularly important for those orbits that are nearly glancing.