Convex polygon billiard wave-front density conjecture

Let a convex polygon billiard be a billiard in a convex polygonal table, and let Wt(P)W_t(P) denote the billiard wave front at time tt from a point PP in the table. The wave front becomes dense if it eventually intersects every open subset of the billiard table. Convex polygon-billiard density conjecture. For all convex polygon billiards, all the wave fronts Wt(P)W_t(P) become dense. The source describes this as a problem that may admit a simple argument but has not yet been settled, so the conjecture remains open.

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Emily Kang and Oliver Knill, “Density of wave fronts”, arXiv:2501.14611 (2026).

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