New proof of Sinai's formula for the entropy of hyperbolic billard systems. Application to Lorentz gases and Bunimovich stadiums

DOI10.1007/BF01085490zbMath0748.58015MaRDI QIDQ1178105

Nikolai I. Chernov

Publication date: 26 June 1992

Published in: Functional Analysis and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory (37A99) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

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