Escape orbits and Ergodicity in Infinite Step Billiards

dc.creatorDegli-Esposti, Mirko
dc.creatorDel Magno, Gianluigi
dc.creatorLenci, Marco
dc.date1999-06-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:35:45Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:35:45Z
dc.descriptionIn a previous paper we defined a class of non-compact polygonal billiards, the infinite step billiards: to a given decreasing sequence of non-negative numbers $\{p_{n}$, there corresponds a table $\Bi := \bigcup_{n\in\N} [n,n+1] \times [0,p_{n}]$. In this article, first we generalize the main result of the previous paper to a wider class of examples. That is, a.s. there is a unique escape orbit which belongs to the alpha and omega-limit of every other trajectory. Then, following a recent work of Troubetzkoy, we prove that generically these systems are ergodic for almost all initial velocities, and the entropy with respect to a wide class of ergodic measures is zero.
dc.description27 pages, 8 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9906017
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9906017
dc.identifierNonlinearity 13 (2000), no. 4, 1275-1292
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0951-7715/13/4/316
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15725
dc.subjectChaotic Dynamics
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.titleEscape orbits and Ergodicity in Infinite Step Billiards
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