Mixing Property of Triangular Billiards

Giulio Casati and Tomaž Prosen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4729 – Published 6 December 1999
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Abstract

We present numerical evidence which strongly suggests that irrational triangular billiards (all angles irrational with π) are mixing. Since these systems are known to have zero Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, they may play an important role in understanding the statistical relaxation process.

  • Received 24 June 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4729

©1999 American Physical Society

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Giulio Casati1,2 and Tomaž Prosen3

  • 1International Center for the Study of Dynamical Systems, Universita'degli Studi dell'Insubria, via Lucini, 3, I-22100 Como,
  • 2and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia and INFN, Unità di Milano, Italy
  • 3Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, 1111 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Vol. 83, Iss. 23 — 6 December 1999

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