Uniform hyperbolicity in nonflat billiards
Differential Geometry
2019-04-26 v3 Dynamical Systems
Geometric Topology
Abstract
Uniform hyperbolicity is a strong chaotic property which holds, in particular, for Sinai billiards. In this paper, we consider the case of a nonflat billiard, that is, a Riemannian manifold with boundary. Each trajectory follows the geodesic flow in the interior of the billiard, and bounces when it meets the boundary. We give a sufficient condition for a nonflat billiard to be uniformly hyperbolic. As a particular case, we obtain a new criterion to show that a closed surface has an Anosov geodesic flow.
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@article{arxiv.1605.00290,
title = {Uniform hyperbolicity in nonflat billiards},
author = {Mickaël Kourganoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00290},
year = {2019}
}
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19 pages