Gauss map and Lyapunov exponents of interacting particles in a billiard

DOI10.1016/J.CHAOS.2007.06.112zbMATH Open1197.37054arXiv0903.0177OpenAlexW2011605013MaRDI QIDQ712107FDOQ712107

Authors: C. Manchein, M. W. Beims 

Publication date: 28 October 2010

Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the Lyapunov exponent (LE) of periodic orbits with Lebesgue measure zero from the Gauss map can be used to determine the main qualitative behavior of the LE of a Hamiltonian system. The Hamiltonian system is a one-dimensional box with two particles interacting via a Yukawa potential and does not possess Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) curves. In our case the Gauss map is applied to the mass ratio $gamma=m_2/m_1$ between particles. Besides the main qualitative behavior, some unexpected peaks in the $gamma$ dependence of the mean LE and the appearance of 'stickness' in phase space can also be understand via LE from the Gauss map. This shows a nice example of the relation between the "instability" of the continued fraction representation of a number with the stability of non-periodic curves (no KAM curves) from the physical model. Our results also confirm the intuition that pseudo-integrable systems with more complicated invariant surfaces of the flow (higher genus) should be more unstable under perturbation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0177

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