Topologically weakly mixing polygonal billiards

DOI10.1090/PROC/14135zbMATH Open1523.37035arXiv1702.08260MaRDI QIDQ6043767FDOQ6043767

Authors: Jozef Bobok, Serge Troubetzkoy 

Publication date: 24 May 2023

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

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.

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

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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)

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