  Wave propagation in ray-chaotic scenarios, characterized by exponential
sensitivity to ray-launching conditions, is a topic of significant interest,
with deep phenomenological implications and important applications, ranging
from optical components and devices to time-reversal focusing/sensing schemes.
Against a background of available results that are largely focused on the
time-harmonic regime, we deal here with short-pulsed wavepacket propagation in
a ray-chaotic enclosure. For this regime, we propose a rigorous analytical
framework based on a short-pulsed random-plane-wave statistical representation,
and check its predictions against the results from
finite-difference-time-domain numerical simulations.
