Measure of maximal entropy for finite horizon Sinai billiard flows

arXiv2209.00982MaRDI QIDQ6506509FDOQ6506509

Viviane Baladi, Jérôme Carrand, Mark F. Demers

Abstract: Using recent work of Carrand on equilibrium states for the billiard map, and bootstrapping via a "leapfrogging" method from a previous article of Baladi and Demers, we construct the unique measure of maximal entropy for two-dimensional finite horizon Sinai (dispersive) billiard flows (and show it is Bernoulli), assuming that the topological entropy of the flow is strictly larger than s_0 log 2 where 0<s_0<1 quantifies the recurrence to singularities. This bound holds in many examples (it is expected to hold generically).

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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