Conjecture on periodic orbits in no-slip billiards with external force
A no-slip billiard is a billiard system in which collisions with the boundary exchange tangential and normal velocity according to the no-slip collision rule. An accessible point is a point of the table that can be reached by a billiard trajectory. A path-reversing periodic orbit retraces its path after a collision. A wedge is the region between two intersecting boundary rays.
Periodic-orbit conjecture. For a no-slip billiard with an external force, -periodic non-path-reversing orbits exist between any two accessible points on an arbitrary table, and isolated higher-order periodic orbits exist between accessible points on a wedge.
These are experimentally suggested possibilities extending the known family of path-reversing -periodic orbits; the source does not establish either assertion.
References
Primary source
Jan Ahmed, Timothy Chumley, Scott Cook, Christopher Cox, Hakiem Grant, Nicholas Petela, Bethany Rothrock and Ridnald Xhafaj, “Dynamics of the no-slip Galton board”, arXiv:2208.07790 (2022).
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