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I'll interpret you question to be asking about whether the particle paths are "equidistributed" in the sense of dynamical systems. There is a large literature on this sort of thing, though usually instead of "particles" the authors talk about "billiards". While I don't know the answer to your question as stated, I do know that there are many examples where the paths become equidistributed for "generic" choices of positions and initial directions (in other words, the "bad" choices form a set of measure zero).

Many examples and results of this form can be found in the wonderful survey "Rational billiards and flat structures" by Masur and Tabachnikov, which is available on Masur's web page.

EDIT : I forgot a nice reference! Serge Tabachnikov has written a very accessible book entitled "Geometry and Billiards" which is available on his webpage here.

I'll interpret you question to be asking about whether the particle paths are "equidistributed" in the sense of dynamical systems. There is a large literature on this sort of thing, though usually instead of "particles" the authors talk about "billiards". While I don't know the answer to your question as stated, I do know that there are many examples where the paths become equidistributed for "generic" choices of positions and initial directions (in other words, the "bad" choices form a set of measure zero).

Many examples and results of this form can be found in the wonderful survey "Rational billiards and flat structures" by Masur and Tabachnikov, which is available on Masur's web page.

I'll interpret you question to be asking about whether the particle paths are "equidistributed" in the sense of dynamical systems. There is a large literature on this sort of thing, though usually instead of "particles" the authors talk about "billiards". While I don't know the answer to your question as stated, I do know that there are many examples where the paths become equidistributed for "generic" choices of positions and initial directions (in other words, the "bad" choices form a set of measure zero).

Many examples and results of this form can be found in the wonderful survey "Rational billiards and flat structures" by Masur and Tabachnikov, which is available on Masur's web page.

EDIT : I forgot a nice reference! Serge Tabachnikov has written a very accessible book entitled "Geometry and Billiards" which is available on his webpage here.

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Andy Putman
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I'll interpret you question to be asking about whether the particle paths are "equidistributed" in the sense of dynamical systems. There is a large literature on this sort of thing, though usually instead of "particles" the authors talk about "billiards". While I don't know the answer to your question as stated, I do know that there are many examples where the paths become equidistributed for "generic" choices of positions and initial directions (in other words, the "bad" choices form a set of measure zero).

Many examples and results of this form can be found in the wonderful survey "Rational billiards and flat structures" by Masur and Tabachnikov, which is available on Masur's web page.