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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 {pn\{p_{n}, there corresponds a table \Bi:=nN[n,n+1]×[0,pn]\Bi := \bigcup_{n\in\N} [n,n+1] \times [0,p_{n}]. 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

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