Topologically weakly mixing polygonal billiards

DOI10.1090/PROC/14135MaRDI QIDQ6043767zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jozef Bobok, Serge Troubetzkoy

Publication date 24 May 2023

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08260

zbMATH Keywords

mixingbilliard mappolygonal billiardsirrational polygonscoding orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

Abstract: We show that in a typical polygon the billiard map as well as its associated subshift obtained by coding orbits by the sequence of sides they visit are topologically weakly mixing.

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