Convex polygon billiard wave-front density conjecture
Convex polygon billiard wave-front density conjecture
Let a convex polygon billiard be a billiard in a convex polygonal table, and let denote the billiard wave front at time from a point 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 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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Primary source
Emily Kang and Oliver Knill, “Density of wave fronts”, arXiv:2501.14611 (2026).
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