The Statistics of the Trajectory of a Certain Billiard in a Flat Two-Torus
Abstract
We consider a billiard in the punctured torus obtained by removing a small disk of radius ɛ>0 from the flat torus 𝕋2, with trajectory starting from the center of the puncture. In this case the phase space is given by the range of the velocity ω only. Let ∼τɛ(ω), and respectively ∼Rɛ(ω), denote the first exit time (length of the trajectory), and respectively the number of collisions with the side cushions when 𝕋2 is being identified with [0,1)2. We prove that the probability measures on [0,∞) associated with the random variables ɛ∼τɛ and ɛ∼Rɛ are weakly convergent as ${{\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+}}$ and explicitly compute the densities of the limits.
- Publication:
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 2003
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/0110217
- Bibcode:
- 2003CMaPh.240...53B
- Keywords:
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- Phase Space;
- Probability Measure;
- Exit Time;
- Small Disk;
- Puncture Torus;
- Mathematics - Number Theory;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Dynamical Systems;
- 11B57;
- 82C40;
- 37D50;
- 58F25
- E-Print:
- 21 pages, 6 figures