Outer billiards with contraction: attracting Cantor sets

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.952801MaRDI QIDQ5246359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors In-Jee Jeong

Publication date 21 April 2015

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05934

zbMATH Keywords

dynamics on the intervalrotation numberunique ergodicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45)

Abstract: We consider the outer billiards map with contraction outside polygons. We construct a 1-parameter family of systems such that each system has an open set in which the dynamics is reduced to that of a piecewise contraction on the interval. Using the theory of rotation numbers, we deduce that every point inside the open set is asymptotic to either a single periodic orbit (rational case) or a Cantor set (irrational case). In particular, we deduce existence of an attracting Cantor set for certain parameter values. Moreover, for a different choice of a 1-parameter family, we prove that the system is uniquely ergodic; in particular, the entire domain is asymptotic to a single attractor.

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