Ergodicity of some open systems with particle-disk interactions (Q543374)

Considering steady states for a class of mechanical systems with particle-disk interactions coupled of two, possibly unequal, heat baths, the author manages to prove that a steady state that satisfies some natural assumptions is ergodic and absolutely continuous with respect to a Lebesgue-type measure. In particular, the paper provides conditions under which an invariant measure is ergodic and absolutely continuous with respect to a natural reference measure and, moreover, that there exists at most one absolutely continuous steady state.