The complete hyperbolicity of cylindric billiards

DOI10.1017/S0143385702000135zbMATH Open1046.37020arXivmath/9906139MaRDI QIDQ4533430FDOQ4533430

Authors: Nándor Simányi 

Publication date: 11 June 2002

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The connected configuration space of a so called cylindric billiard system is a flat torus minus finitely many spherical cylinders. The dynamical system describes the uniform motion of a point particle in this configuration space with specular reflections at the boundaries of the removed cylinders. It is proven here that under a certain geometric condition --- slightly stronger than the necessary condition presented in [S-Sz(1998)] --- a cylindric billiard flow is completely hyperbolic. As a consequence, every hard ball system is completely hyperbolic --- a result strengthening the theorem of [S-Sz(1999)].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906139

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic billiardsPesin theoryhard ball systemssmooth maps with singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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