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Positive topological entropy for multi-bump magnetic fields

Dynamical Systems 2015-06-11 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a charged particle in a planar magnetic field which consists of n2n\geq 2 disjoint localized peaks. We show that, under mild geometric conditions, this system is semi-conjugated to the full shift on nn symbols and, hence, carries positive topological entropy.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5437,
  title  = {Positive topological entropy for multi-bump magnetic fields},
  author = {Andreas Knauf and Frank Schulz and Karl Friedrich Siburg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5437},
  year   = {2015}
}
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