Ergodic properties of semi-dispersing billiards. I. Two cylindric scatterers in the 3D torus
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nonlinearity
- Vol. 2 (2) , 311-326
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/2/2/007
Abstract
The K-mixing property is proved for the simplest, non-trivial semi-dispersing billiard: that on the 3D torus with two cylindric scatterers (systems of elastic hard spheres can be represented as higher-dimensional toric billiards with cylindric scatterers). They also provide a method for a stronger, topological description of a constructively defined zero-measure set of points not necessarily belonging to open ergodic components because only this set could separate the ergodic components.Keywords
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