The Lyapunov exponent in the Sinai billiard in the small scatterer limit
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nonlinearity
- Vol. 10 (1) , 159-173
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/10/1/011
Abstract
We show that the Lyapunov exponent for the Sinai billiard is with where R is the radius of the circular scatterer. We consider the disk-to-disk-map of the standard configuration where the disk is centred inside a unit square.Keywords
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