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Liouville ergodicity of linear multi-particle hamiltonian system with one marked particle velocity flips

Mathematical Physics 2016-11-02 v1 Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We consider multi-particle systems with linear deterministic hamiltonian dynamics. Besides Liouville measure it has continuum of invariant tori and thus continuum of invariant measures. But if one specified particle is subjected to a simple linear deterministic transformation (velocity flip) in random time moments, we prove convergence to Liouville measure for any initial state. For the proof it appeared necessary to study non-linear transformations on the energy surface.

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@article{arxiv.1503.04531,
  title  = {Liouville ergodicity of linear multi-particle hamiltonian system with one marked particle velocity flips},
  author = {A. A. Lykov and V. A. Malyshev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04531},
  year   = {2016}
}