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Martin Sleziak
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The problem is essentially the Sinai billiardSinai billiard. That takes place on a finite square table with a circular hole removed (=peg added). There are standard bounces off the straight edges as well as off the peg.

There is a standard procedure of "unfolding" across flat edges: you just take a reflected copy of the table across any flat edge. There is a correspondence between trajectories in the unfolded table and the original table (a reflection in the original table across a flat edge just becomes a straight trajectory in the unfolded table).

Repeating this, you obtain exactly the model in the question. Sinai gave a statistical analysis of the properties of the trajectory which must imply that the set of angles for which the trajectory remains bounded has measure 0.

The problem is essentially the Sinai billiard. That takes place on a finite square table with a circular hole removed (=peg added). There are standard bounces off the straight edges as well as off the peg.

There is a standard procedure of "unfolding" across flat edges: you just take a reflected copy of the table across any flat edge. There is a correspondence between trajectories in the unfolded table and the original table (a reflection in the original table across a flat edge just becomes a straight trajectory in the unfolded table).

Repeating this, you obtain exactly the model in the question. Sinai gave a statistical analysis of the properties of the trajectory which must imply that the set of angles for which the trajectory remains bounded has measure 0.

The problem is essentially the Sinai billiard. That takes place on a finite square table with a circular hole removed (=peg added). There are standard bounces off the straight edges as well as off the peg.

There is a standard procedure of "unfolding" across flat edges: you just take a reflected copy of the table across any flat edge. There is a correspondence between trajectories in the unfolded table and the original table (a reflection in the original table across a flat edge just becomes a straight trajectory in the unfolded table).

Repeating this, you obtain exactly the model in the question. Sinai gave a statistical analysis of the properties of the trajectory which must imply that the set of angles for which the trajectory remains bounded has measure 0.

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Anthony Quas
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The problem is essentially the Sinai billiard. That takes place on a finite square table with a circular hole removed (=peg added). There are standard bounces off the straight edges as well as off the peg.

There is a standard procedure of "unfolding" across flat edges: you just take a reflected copy of the table across any flat edge. There is a correspondence between trajectories in the unfolded table and the original table (a reflection in the original table across a flat edge just becomes a straight trajectory in the unfolded table).

Repeating this, you obtain exactly the model in the question. Sinai gave a statistical analysis of the properties of the trajectory which must imply that the set of angles for which the trajectory remains bounded has measure 0.