On ergodic properties of certain billiards
On ergodic properties of certain billiards
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关于某些台球的遍历特性
DOI:
10.1007/bf01075700
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发表时间:
1974
影响因子:
0.4
通讯作者:
L. Bunimovich
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作者:
L. Bunimovich
::: It: is known (cf.[1] and [2]) that: dispersing billiards (ie,: billiards in regions Q, located on a two-dimensional torus T 2 or on the Euclidean plane R 2, whose boundary consists of components convex inward from Q) are K systems in the sense Of AN Kolmogorov [3, 4]. In [5], an analogous result was obtained for one class of regions Q c R 2 whose boundaries contain both dispersing and focusing components. On the other hand, billiards in a convex region with sufficiently smooth boundaries are not ergodic (cf., for example,[6]).The aim of the present note is to show that there exist convex regions Q c R 2 such that a billiard in Q is a K system. To VI Arnol'd [7] is due the graphic explanation of the analogy between dispersing bin liards and geodesic flows on surfaces of negative curvature. In this sense, the billiards considered by us are analogous to geodesic flows on surfaces whose curvature is not negative.