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We study billiard dynamics inside an ellipse for which the axes lengths are changed periodically in time and an $O(\delta)$-small quartic polynomial deformation is added to the boundary. In this situation the energy of the particle in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Carl P. Dettmann , Vitaly Fain , Dmitry Turaev

Defocusing mechanism provides a way to construct chaotic (hyperbolic) billiards with focusing components by separating all regular components of the boundary of a billiard table sufficiently far away from each focusing component. If all…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Leonid Bunimovich , Hong-Kun Zhang , Pengfei Zhang

Using the obstruction theory of Blanc-Dwyer-Goerss, we compute the moduli space of realizations of 2-stage Pi-algebras concentrated in dimensions 1 and n or in dimensions n and n+1. The main technical tools are Postnikov truncation and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Martin Frankland

The article studies a generalization of the elliptic billiard to the complex domain. We show that the billiard orbits also have caustics, and that the number of such caustics is bigger than for the real case. For example, for a given…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Corentin Fierobe

We introduce a new discrete system that arises from ellipsoidal billiards and is closely related to the double reflection nets. The system is defined on the lattice of a uniform honeycomb consisting of rectified hypercubes and cross…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Milena Radnovic

We have derived explicit expressions for the sum rules of order one of the eigenvalues of the negative Laplacian on two dimensional domains of arbitrary shape. Taking into account the leading asymptotic behavior of these eigenvalues, as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Paolo Amore

We investigate the large scale chaotic, topological structure of the trajectories of an infinite sequence of dispersing, hence ergodic, $2D$ billiards with the configuration space $Q_n=\mathbb{T}^2 \setminus \bigcup_{i=0}^{n-1} D_i$, where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Nandor Simanyi

We consider a flat metric with conical singularities on the sphere. Under the assumption that no partial sum of angle defects is equal to $2\pi$, we draw on the geometry of immersed disks to obtain an explicit upper bound on the number of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Kai Fu , Guillaume Tahar

The poles of the S-matrix and the wave functions of open 2D quantum billiards with convex boundary of different shape are calculated by the method of complex scaling. Two leads are attached to the cavities. The conductance of the cavities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-06 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , I. Rotter , P. Seba

We construct the fine moduli space of log abelian varieties with PEL structure, which gives a toroidal compactification of the moduli space of abelian varieties with PEL structure.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Takeshi Kajiwara , Kazuya Kato , Chikara Nakayama

The famous conjecture of V.Ya.Ivrii (1978) says that {\it in every billiard with infinitely-smooth boundary in a Euclidean space the set of periodic orbits has measure zero}. In the present paper we study the complex version of Ivrii's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Alexey Glutsyuk

In this paper, we analyse the Einstein and Einstein-Maxwell billiards for all spatially homogeneous cosmological models corresponding to 3 and 4 dimensional real unimodular Lie algebras and provide the list of those models which are chaotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sophie de Buyl , Gaia Pinardi , Christiane Schomblond

We construct families of two-dimensional Sinai billiards whose transfer operators have Ruelle resonances arbitrarily close to 1. Our method involves taking a large enough cover of an initial billiard table, and relating the transfer…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Damien Thomine

Recent experiments have shown that many species of microorganisms leave a solid surface at a fixed angle determined by steric interactions and near-field hydrodynamics. This angle is completely independent of the incoming angle. For several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-14 Madison S. Krieger

We introduce a boundary integral method for two-dimensional quantum billiards subjected to a constant magnetic field. It allows to calculate spectra and wave functions, in particular at strong fields and semiclassical values of the magnetic…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Klaus Hornberger , Uzy Smilansky

We consider classical billiards in plane, connected, but not necessarily bounded domains. The charged billiard ball is immersed in a homogeneous, stationary magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. The part of dynamics which is not…

chao-dyn · Physics 2010-12-09 N. Berglund , H. Kunz

Billiard models of single particles moving freely in two-dimensional regions enclosed by hard walls, have long provided ideal toy models for the investigation of dynamical systems and chaos. Recently, billiards with (semi-)permeable walls…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Katherine Holmes , Joseph Hall , Eva-Maria Graefe

We consider polygonal billiards with collisions contracting the reflection angle towards the normal to the boundary of the table. In previous work, we proved that such billiards has a finite number of ergodic SRB measures supported on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Gianluigi Del Magno , João Lopes Dias , Pedro Duarte , José Pedro Gaivão

The $p$-widths are a nonlinear analogue of the spectrum of the Laplacian. We prove that each $p$-width of a polygon in $\mathbb{R}^2$ is achieved by a union of billiard trajectories. We also compute the $p$-widths of the equilateral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Otis Chodosh , Sithipont Cholsaipant

This is the first survey of highly excited eigenstates of a chaotic 3D billiard. We introduce a strongly chaotic 3D billiard with a smooth boundary and we manage to calculate accurate eigenstates with sequential number (of a 48-fold…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Tomaz Prosen