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Singularities and nonhyperbolic manifolds do not coincide

Dynamical Systems 2013-05-14 v5 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the billiard flow of elastically colliding hard balls on the flat ν\nu-torus (ν2\nu\ge 2), and prove that no singularity manifold can even locally coincide with a manifold describing future non-hyperbolicity of the trajectories. As a corollary, we obtain the ergodicity (actually the Bernoulli mixing property) of all such systems, i.e. the verification of the Boltzmann-Sinai Ergodic Hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0061,
  title  = {Singularities and nonhyperbolic manifolds do not coincide},
  author = {Nandor Simanyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0061},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Final version, to appear in Nonlinearity

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