Escape orbits and Ergodicity in Infinite Step Billiards
chao-dyn
2007-05-23 v1 Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
In a previous paper we defined a class of non-compact polygonal billiards, the infinite step billiards: to a given decreasing sequence of non-negative numbers , there corresponds a table . In this article, first we generalize the main result of the previous paper to a wider class of examples. That is, a.s. there is a unique escape orbit which belongs to the alpha and omega-limit of every other trajectory. Then, following a recent work of Troubetzkoy, we prove that generically these systems are ergodic for almost all initial velocities, and the entropy with respect to a wide class of ergodic measures is zero.
Cite
@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9906017,
title = {Escape orbits and Ergodicity in Infinite Step Billiards},
author = {Mirko Degli-Esposti and Gianluigi Del Magno and Marco Lenci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9906017},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
27 pages, 8 figures