Chaos in cylindrical stadium billiards via a generic nonlinear mechanism

DOI10.1142/S0218127412502069MaRDI QIDQ4907074zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Thomas Gilbert, David P. Sanders

Publication date 1 March 2013

Published in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4243

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolicitynonlinear stabilityfocusing high-dimensional billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

Abstract: We describe conditions under which higher-dimensional billiard models in bounded, convex regions are fully chaotic, generalizing the Bunimovich stadium to dimensions above two. An example is a three-dimensional stadium bounded by a cylinder and several planes; the combination of these elements may give rise to defocusing, allowing large chaotic regions in phase space. By studying families of marginally-stable periodic orbits that populate the residual part of phase space, we identify conditions under which a nonlinear instability mechanism arises in their vicinity. For particular geometries, this mechanism rather induces stable nonlinear oscillations, including in the form of whispering-gallery modes.

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