# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2007, 19(1): 89-102. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2007.19.89

## Entropy of polyhedral billiard

 1 Fédération de recherche des unités de mathématiques de Marseille, LATP, Faculté des sciences de Saint-Jérome, case cours A, Université Paul Cézanne, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France

Received  July 2006 Revised  February 2007 Published  June 2007

We consider the billiard map in a convex polyhedron of $\mathbb{R}^3$, and we prove that it is of zero topological entropy.
Citation: Nicolas Bedaride. Entropy of polyhedral billiard. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2007, 19 (1) : 89-102. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2007.19.89
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