Structure and evolution of strange attractors in non-elastic triangular billiards

DOI10.1063/1.4719149zbMATH Open1331.37036arXiv1112.1255OpenAlexW3099966666WikidataQ54068529 ScholiaQ54068529MaRDI QIDQ2787802FDOQ2787802

Aubin Arroyo, R. Markarian, David P. Sanders

Publication date: 4 March 2016

Published in: Chaos (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study pinball billiard dynamics in an equilateral triangular table. In such dynamics, collisions with the walls are non-elastic: the outgoing angle with the normal vector to the boundary is a uniform factor $lambda<1$ smaller than the incoming angle. This leads to contraction in phase space for the discrete-time dynamics between consecutive collisions, and hence to attractors of zero Lebesgue measure, which are almost always fractal strange attractors with chaotic dynamics, due to the presence of an expansion mechanism. We study the structure of these strange attractors and their evolution as the contraction parameter $lambda$ is varied. For $lambda$ in the interval (0, 1/3), we prove rigorously that the attractor has the structure of a Cantor set times an interval, whereas for larger values of $lambda$ the billiard dynamics gives rise to nonaccessible regions in phase space. For $lambda$ close to 1, the attractor splits into three transitive components, the basins of attraction of which have fractal basin boundaries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1255

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Fractals (28A80) Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35) Dynamical systems with hyperbolic orbits and sets (37D05)

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