Ergodicity of asymmetric lemon Billiards

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Auteurs principaux: Fan, Wentao, Hasselblatt, Boris
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author Fan, Wentao
Hasselblatt, Boris
author_facet Fan, Wentao
Hasselblatt, Boris
contents We show ergodicity of (asymmetric) lemon billiards, billiard tables that are the intersection of two circles of which one contains the centers of both. These do not satisfy the Wojtkowski criteria for hyperbolicity, but we establish \emph{uniform} expansion of vectors in an invariant cone family and alignment of singularity curves. Both of these are difficult, and the approach to the latter seems new. Together, these properties imply ergodicity.
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spellingShingle Ergodicity of asymmetric lemon Billiards
Fan, Wentao
Hasselblatt, Boris
Dynamical Systems
We show ergodicity of (asymmetric) lemon billiards, billiard tables that are the intersection of two circles of which one contains the centers of both. These do not satisfy the Wojtkowski criteria for hyperbolicity, but we establish \emph{uniform} expansion of vectors in an invariant cone family and alignment of singularity curves. Both of these are difficult, and the approach to the latter seems new. Together, these properties imply ergodicity.
title Ergodicity of asymmetric lemon Billiards
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04948