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What mathematical billiards teach us about statistical physics?

Statistical Mechanics 2020-10-02 v2 Dynamical Systems Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We survey applications of the theory of hyperbolic (and to a lesser extent non hyperbolic) billiards to some fundamental problems of statistical physics and their mathematically rigorous derivations in the framework of classical Hamiltonian systems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.06284,
  title  = {What mathematical billiards teach us about statistical physics?},
  author = {Péter Bálint and Thomas Gilbert and Domokos Szász and Imre Péter Tóth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06284},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

50 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Pure and Applied Functional Analysis

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