Hyperbolic billiards on polytopes with contracting reflection laws

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2017132zbMATH Open1364.37086arXiv1602.00827OpenAlexW2963413794MaRDI QIDQ515247FDOQ515247

Authors: Pedro Duarte, José Pedro Gaivão, Mohammad Soufi 

Publication date: 13 March 2017

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study billiards on polytopes in $R{r}^d$ with contracting reflection laws, i.e. non-standard reflection laws that contract the reflection angle towards the normal. We prove that billiards on generic polytopes are uniformly hyperbolic provided there exists a positive integer $k$ such that for any $k$ consecutive collisions, the corresponding normals of the faces of the polytope where the collisions took place generate $R{r}^d$. As an application of our main result we prove that billiards on generic polytopes are uniformly hyperbolic if either the contracting reflection law is sufficiently close to the specular or the polytope is obtuse. Finally, we study in detail the billiard on a family of $3$-dimensional simplexes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00827

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zbMATH Keywords

polytopebilliardscontracting reflection law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Attractors of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D45) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20)

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