Chaos and stability in a two-parameter family of convex billiard tables

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/24/5/006zbMATH Open1223.37046arXiv1006.3104OpenAlexW3104780743MaRDI QIDQ3000863FDOQ3000863

Péter Bálint, Miklós Halász, Jorge A. Hernández-Tahuilán, David P. Sanders

Publication date: 31 May 2011

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study, by numerical simulations and semi-rigorous arguments, a two-parameter family of convex, two-dimensional billiard tables, generalizing the one-parameter class of oval billiards of Benettin--Strelcyn [Phys. Rev. A 17, 773 (1978)]. We observe interesting dynamical phenomena when the billiard tables are continuously deformed from the integrable circular billiard to different versions of completely-chaotic stadia. In particular, we conjecture that a new class of ergodic billiard tables is obtained in certain regions of the two-dimensional parameter space, when the billiards are close to skewed stadia. We provide heuristic arguments supporting this conjecture, and give numerical confirmation using the powerful method of Lyapunov-weighted dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3104

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolicbilliardsergodic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Computational methods for ergodic theory (approximation of invariant measures, computation of Lyapunov exponents, entropy, etc.) (37M25)

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