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Topological entropy and periodic points of two-dimensional hyperbolic billiards

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Joint Institute of Nuclear Research. Translated from Funktsional'nyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 50–57, January–March, 1991.

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Chernov, N.I. Topological entropy and periodic points of two-dimensional hyperbolic billiards. Funct Anal Its Appl 25, 39–45 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01090675

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