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The billiard in a regular polygon

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rice University, 77251, Houston, TX, USA

    William A. Veech

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Research supported by NSF-DMS-8521620 and by L'Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques.

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Veech, W.A. The billiard in a regular polygon. Geometric and Functional Analysis 2, 341–379 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01896876

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