Flow-invariant hypersurfaces in semi-dispersing billiards

DOI10.1007/S00023-006-0313-5MaRDI QIDQ2373359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolai Chernov, Nándor Simányi

Publication date 19 July 2007

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0603360

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann-Sinai's hypothesisergodicity of hard ball gasesLyapunov function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Abstract: This work results from our attempts to solve Boltzmann-Sinai's hypothesis about the ergodicity of hard ball gases. A crucial element in the studies of the dynamics of hard balls is the analysis of special hypersurfaces in the phase space consisting of degenerate trajectories (which lack complete hyperbolicity). We prove that if a flow-invariant hypersurface $J$ in the phase space of a semi-dispersing billiard has a negative Lyapunov function, then the volume of the forward image of $J$ grows at least linearly in time. Our proof is independent of the solution of the Boltzmann-Sinai hypothesis, and we provide a complete and self-contained argument here.

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