The Ehrenfest wind-tree model: periodic directions, recurrence, diffusion

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2011.052zbMATH Open1233.37025arXiv0912.2891MaRDI QIDQ5198596FDOQ5198596

Serge Troubetzkoy, Samuel Lelièvre, Pascal Hubert

Publication date: 8 August 2011

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study periodic wind-tree models, unbounded planar billiards with periodically located rectangular obstacles. For a class of rational parameters we show the existence of completely periodic directions, and recurrence; for another class of rational parameters, there are directions in which all trajectories escape, and we prove a rate of escape for almost all directions. These results extend to a dense $G_{d}elta$ of parameters.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2891

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusionrecurrenceVeech groupsbilliard flowsquare-tiled surfacesVeech surfacesplanar billiardsperiodic obstaclescompact translation surfacesEhrenfest wind-free modelperiodic directions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Notions of recurrence and recurrent behavior in topological dynamical systems (37B20) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75) Dynamical systems with hyperbolic orbits and sets (37D05) Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35)

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