Deterministic approximations of random reflectors

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2013-05851-5MaRDI QIDQ2855932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Omer Angel, K. Burdzy, Scott Sheffield

Publication date 23 October 2013

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0801

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Abstract: Within classical optics, one may add microscopic "roughness" to a macroscopically flat mirror so that parallel rays of a given angle are reflected at different outgoing angles. Taking the limit (as the roughness becomes increasingly microscopic) one obtains a flat surface that reflects randomly, i.e., the transition from incoming to outgoing ray is described by a probability kernel (whose form depends on the nature of the microscopic roughness). We consider two-dimensional optics (a.k.a. billiards) and show that every random reflector on a line that satisfies a necessary measure-preservation condition (well established in the theory of billiards) can be approximated by deterministic reflectors in this way.

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