Stability of periodic orbits in no-slip billiards

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AACC43zbMATH Open1396.37045arXiv1612.03355OpenAlexW2580404423MaRDI QIDQ4583367FDOQ4583367

Authors: Christopher Cox, Renato Feres, Hongkun Zhang 

Publication date: 28 August 2018

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Rigid bodies collision maps in dimension two, under a natural set of physical requirements, can be classified into two types: the standard specular reflection map and a second which we call, after Broomhead and Gutkin, no-slip. This leads to the study of no-slip billiards--planar billiard systems in which the moving particle is a disc (with rotationally symmetric mass distribution) whose translational and rotational velocities can both change at each collision with the boundary of the billiard domain. In this paper we greatly extend previous results on boundedness of orbits (Broomhead and Gutkin) and linear stability of periodic orbits for a Sinai-type billiard (Wojtkowski) for no-slip billiards. We show among other facts that: (i) for billiard domains in the plane having piecewise smooth boundary and at least one corner of inner angle less than $pi$, no-slip billiard dynamics will always contain elliptic period-$2$ orbits; (ii) polygonal no-slip billiards always admit small invariant open sets and thus cannot be ergodic with respect to the canonical invariant billiard measure; (iii) the no-slip version of a Sinai billiard must contain linearly stable periodic orbits of period $2$ and, more generally, we provide a curvature threshold at which a commonly occurring period-$2$ orbit shifts from being hyperbolic to being elliptic; (iv) finally, we make a number of observations concerning periodic orbits in a class of polygonal billiards.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03355

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zbMATH Keywords

chaosorbit stabilityno-slip billiardrigid body collision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Dynamics of multibody systems (70E55) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35)

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