Homotopical complexity of a 3D billiard flow

DOI10.1090/CONM/698/13981zbMATH Open1398.37033arXiv1601.08241OpenAlexW4238256040MaRDI QIDQ4686901FDOQ4686901

Authors: Caleb C. Moxley, Nándor Simányi 

Publication date: 10 October 2018

Published in: Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the homotopical rotation vectors and the homotopical rotation sets for the billiard flow on the unit flat torus with three, mutually intersecting and mutually orthogonal cylindrical scatterers removed from it. The natural habitat for these objects is the infinite cone erected upon the Cantor set $extEnds(extbf{F}_3)$ of all "ends" of the hyperbolic group $extbf{F}_3=p{i}_1(mathbfQ)$. An element of $extEnds(extbf{F}_3)$ describes the direction in (the Cayley graph of) the group $extbf{F}_3$ in which the considered trajectory escapes to infinity, whereas the height function $s$ ($sge0$) of the cone gives us the average speed at which this escape takes place. The main results of this paper claim that the orbits can only escape to infinity at a speed not exceeding $sqrt3$, and in any direction $einextEnds(mathbf{F}_3)$ the escape is feasible with any prescribed speed $s$, $0leqsleq1/3$. This means that the radial upper and lower bounds for the rotation set $R$ are actually pretty close to each other. Furthermore, we prove the convexity of the set $AR$ of constructible rotation vectors, and that the set of rotation vectors of periodic orbits is dense in $AR$. We also provide effective lower and upper bounds for the topological entropy of the studied billiard flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.08241

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zbMATH Keywords

topological entropyescape to infinityhomotopical rotation vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45) Flows on surfaces (37E35)

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