Weakly Mixing Polygonal Billiards

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Main Authors: Chaika, Jon, Forni, Giovanni
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author Chaika, Jon
Forni, Giovanni
author_facet Chaika, Jon
Forni, Giovanni
contents We prove that there exists a residual set of (non-rational) polygons such the billiard flow is weakly mixing with respect to the Liouville measure (on the unit tangent bundle to the billiard). This follows, via a Baire category argument, from showing that for any translation surface the product of the flows in almost every pair of directions is ergodic with respect to Lebesgue measure. This in turn is proven by showing that for every translation surface the flows in almost every pair of directions do not share non-trivial common eigenvalues.
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spellingShingle Weakly Mixing Polygonal Billiards
Chaika, Jon
Forni, Giovanni
Dynamical Systems
Geometric Topology
37A25, 37E35, 30F60, 32G15
We prove that there exists a residual set of (non-rational) polygons such the billiard flow is weakly mixing with respect to the Liouville measure (on the unit tangent bundle to the billiard). This follows, via a Baire category argument, from showing that for any translation surface the product of the flows in almost every pair of directions is ergodic with respect to Lebesgue measure. This in turn is proven by showing that for every translation surface the flows in almost every pair of directions do not share non-trivial common eigenvalues.
title Weakly Mixing Polygonal Billiards
topic Dynamical Systems
Geometric Topology
37A25, 37E35, 30F60, 32G15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00890