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Main Authors: Bessa, Mário, Del Magno, Gianluigi, Dias, João Lopes, Gaivão, José Pedro, Torres, Maria Joana
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01362
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  • We show that there exists a $C^2$ open dense set of convex bodies with smooth boundary whose billiard map exhibits a non-trivial hyperbolic basic set. As a consequence billiards in generic convex bodies have positive topological entropy and exponential growth of the number of periodic orbits.