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We introduce a large class of billiards with convex pieces of the boundary which have nonvanishing Lyapunov exponents.
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Wojtkowski, M. Principles for the design of billiards with nonvanishing Lyapunov exponents. Commun.Math. Phys. 105, 391–414 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205934
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