An infinite step billiard

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/11/4/013MaRDI QIDQ4208719zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gianluigi Del Magno, Marco Lenci, Mirko Degli Esposti

Publication date 18 October 1998

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9709006

zbMATH Keywords

billard flowescape orbit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory (37A99)

Abstract: A class of non-compact billiards is introduced, namely the infinite step billiards, i.e., systems of a point particle moving freely in the domain $$, with elastic reflections on the boundary; here $p_0=1,p_n>0$ and $p_n$ vanishes monotonically. After describing some generic ergodic features of these dynamical systems, we turn to a more detailed study of the example $p_n=2^{-n}$. What plays an important role in this case are the so called escape orbits, that is, orbits going to $+infty$ monotonically in the X-velocity. A fairly complete description of them is given. This enables us to prove some results concerning the topology of the dynamics on the billiard.

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