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Classical billiards can compute

Published: December 22, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.19156v1

By: Eva Miranda, Isaac Ramos

We show that two-dimensional billiard systems are Turing complete by encoding their dynamics within the framework of Topological Kleene Field Theory. Billiards serve as idealized models of particle motion with elastic reflections and arise naturally as limits of smooth Hamiltonian systems under steep confining potentials. Our results establish the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural billiard-type models, including billiard-type models arising in hard-sphere gases and in collision-chain limits of celestial mechanics.

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Mathematics:
Dynamical Systems