{ "id": "1109.6410", "version": "v1", "published": "2011-09-29T06:23:00.000Z", "updated": "2011-09-29T06:23:00.000Z", "title": "Billiard complexity in the hypercube", "authors": [ "Nicolas Bedaride", "Pascal Hubert" ], "comment": "18 pages, 3 figures", "journal": "Annales de l'institut Fourier. 2007, 57 (3) 719-738", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We consider the billiard map in the hypercube of $\\mathbb{R}^d$. We obtain a language by coding the billiard map by the faces of the hypercube. We investigate the complexity function of this language. We prove that $n^{3d-3}$ is the order of magnitude of the complexity.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2011-09-29T06:23:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "37A35", "37C35", "05A16", "11N37" ], "keywords": [ "billiard complexity", "billiard map", "complexity function" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 18, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1109.6410B" } } }