Topological entropy and pressure for finite-horizon Sinai billiards (Q6119709)

Summary: This brief survey describes recent progress in our understanding of a variety of equilibrium states for finite-horizon dispersing billiard maps in two dimensions. In particular, we review formulations of topological entropy and pressure for the family of geometric potentials \(- t \log J^uT\), where \(J^uT\) denotes the unstable Jacobian of the map and \(t \in \mathbb{R}\). We summarize recent results, proving the existence and uniqueness of related equilibrium states for some range of \(t \geq 0\), including \([0, 1]\). In this family, \(t=0\) corresponds to the measure of maximal entropy, while \(t=1\) corresponds to the smooth invariant measure for the billiard map. In addition, variational principles are presented which express topological notions of pressure and entropy as the supremum of their measure-theoretic counterparts. For the entire collection see [Zbl 07816359].