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Example of exponential many collisions of identical hard disks in the plane
Abstract
We show that the maximal number of nonsimultaneous elastic collisions among n identical hard disks moving freely on the plane is at least exponential in n.
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BibTeX
@misc{qiu2026example,
title = {{Example of exponential many collisions of identical hard disks in the plane}},
author = {Hongda Qiu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.14282},
eprint = {2610.14282},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14282},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Example of exponential many collisions of identical hard disks in the plane
AU - Hongda Qiu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.14282
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14282
AB - We show that the maximal number of nonsimultaneous elastic collisions among n identical hard disks moving freely on the plane is at least exponential in n.
ER -