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Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 2005 Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 285–306 (Mi rcd711)

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150th anniversary of H. Poincaré

Generalized billiards inside an infinite strip with periodic laws of reflection along the strip's boundaries

S. Albeverioabc, G. Galperind, I. L. Nizhnike, L. P. Nizhnike

a Institute für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Bonn, Wegelerstr. 6, D 53155 Bonn, Germany
b Research Center Bielefeld-Bonn-Stochastics (BiBoS), D-33501 Bielefeld; D-53115 Bonn, Germany
c Research Center for Mathematics and Physics (CERFIM), CH - 6601 Locarno, Switzerland
d Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Ave., Charleston, IL 61920, USA
e Institute of Mathematics, 3 Tereshchenkivska, Kiev 01601, Ukraine

Abstract: A constructive description of generalized billiards is given, the billiards being inside an infinite strip with a periodic law of reflection off the strip's bottom and top boundaries. Each of the boundaries is equipped with the same periodic lattice, where the number of lattice's nodes between any two successive reflection points may be prescribed arbitrarily. For such billiards, a full description of the structure of the set of billiard trajectories is provided, the existence of spatial chaos is found, and the exact value of the spatial entropy in the class of monotonic billiard trajectories is found.

Keywords: billiards, dynamical systems, spatial chaos, entropy.

MSC: 37D50, 37D45,37B10

Received: 13.08.2004
Accepted: 12.01.2005

Language: English

DOI: 10.1070/RD2005v010n03ABEH000316



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