On another edge of defocusing: hyperbolicity of asymmetric lemon billiards

DOI10.1007/s00220-015-2539-xzbMath1418.37067arXiv1412.0173MaRDI QIDQ2634679

Leonid A. Bunimovich, Hong-Kun Zhang, Peng Fei Zhang

Publication date: 18 February 2016

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0173

zbMATH Keywords

billiards; convex ergodic billiard; convex tables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37A25: Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing

37D25: Nonuniformly hyperbolic systems (Lyapunov exponents, Pesin theory, etc.)

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