Big islands in dispersing billiard-like potentials

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00021-4MaRDI QIDQ1809177zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. Rom-Kedar, D. Turaev

Publication date 30 January 2001

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00021-4

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic islandsergodicitymixed dynamicsnormal formsingular Hamiltonian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Review text

The authors study the following problem: let a plane dispersing scattering billiard be given in a domain \(D\subset R^2\); how is its dynamics changed if one smoothens the billiard flow replacing the rigid wall potential by an approximating smooth potential? The main result of the paper answers this question in the case when the initial billiard problem contains a so-called simple singular periodic orbit (the related set of paths contains one segment with a quadratic tangency to the billiard boundary). It turns out that under some natural assumptions near such a singular periodic orbit an elliptic periodic orbit arises for the smoothened potential. This implies the existence of surrounding elliptic islands, the flow ceases to be ergodic, etc. To prove the result the authors construct a Poincaré map near the perturbed periodic orbit and find its asymptotics for the perturbation tending to zero. This allows them to conclude that related elliptic periodic orbit appeared is of the general elliptic type (one of the Birkhoff coefficients is nonzero). This implies the existence of a nearby elliptic island. The size of this island with respect to a perturbation parameter is estimated.

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