Proof of the ergodic hypothesis for typical hard ball systems

Abstract: We consider the system of

N

(

g e 2

) hard balls with masses

m_{1}, ..., m_{N}

and radius

r

in the flat torus

B b b T_{L}^{u} = B b b R^{u} / L c d o t B b b Z^{u}

of size

L

,

u g e 3

. We prove the ergodicity (actually, the Bernoulli mixing property) of such systems for almost every selection

(m_{1}, ..., m_{N}; L)

of the outer geometric parameters. This theorem complements my earlier result that proved the same, almost sure ergodicity for the case

u = 2

. The method of that proof was primarily dynamical-geometric, whereas the present approach is inherently algebraic.

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