Estimates of Hausdorff dimension for non-wandering sets of higher dimensional open billiards

DOI10.4153/CJM-2013-030-0MaRDI QIDQ2862946zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul Wright

Publication date 20 November 2013

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6066

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionnon-wandering setopen billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: This article concerns a class of open billiards consisting of a finite number of strictly convex, non-eclipsing obstacles $K$. The non-wandering set $M_0$ of the billiard ball map is a topological Cantor set and its Hausdorff dimension has been previously estimated for billiards in $mathbb{R}^2$, using well-known techniques. We extend these estimates to billiards in $mathbb{R}^n$, and make various refinements to the estimates. These refinements also allow improvements to other results. We also show that in many cases, the non-wandering set is confined to a particular subset of $mathbb{R}^n$ formed by the convex hull of points determined by period 2 orbits. This allows more accurate bounds on the constants used in estimating Hausdorff dimension.

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