Topological entropy of semi-dispersing billiards

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. BURAGO ◽  
S. FERLEGER ◽  
A. KONONENKO
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Topological Entropy ◽  
Riemannian Geometry ◽  
Lorentz Gas ◽  
Periodic Points ◽  
Billiard Table ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Periodic Trajectories ◽  
Exponential Estimates ◽  
Dispersing Billiards

In this paper we continue to explore the applications of the connections between singular Riemannian geometry and billiard systems that were first used in [6] to prove estimates on the number of collisions in non-degenerate semi-dispersing billiards.In this paper we show that the topological entropy of a compact non-degenerate semi-dispersing billiard on any manifold of non-positive sectional curvature is finite. Also, we prove exponential estimates on the number of periodic points (for the first return map to the boundary of a simple-connected billiard table) and the number of periodic trajectories (for the billiard flow). In \S5 we prove some estimates for the topological entropy of Lorentz gas.

A geometric approach to semi-dispersing billiards (Survey)

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. BURAGO ◽  
S. FERLEGER ◽  
A. KONONENKO
Keyword(s):  
Topological Entropy ◽  
Riemannian Geometry ◽  
Geometric Approach ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Periodic Trajectories ◽  
Uniform Estimates ◽  
Dispersing Billiards

We summarize the results of several recent papers, together with a few new results, which rely on a connection between semi-dispersing billiards and non-regular Riemannian geometry. We use this connection to solve several open problems about the existence of uniform estimates on the number of collisions, topological entropy and periodic trajectories of such billiards.

scholarly journals A topological lens for a measure-preserving system

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. GLASNER ◽  
M. LEMAŃCZYK ◽  
B. WEISS
Keyword(s):  
Topological Entropy ◽  
Periodic Points ◽  
Positive Entropy ◽  
Topological Properties ◽  
Topologically Transitive ◽  
Topological System ◽  
Zero Entropy ◽  
Weakly Mixing ◽  
Dynamical Properties

AbstractWe introduce a functor which associates to every measure-preserving system (X,ℬ,μ,T) a topological system $(C_2(\mu ),\tilde {T})$ defined on the space of twofold couplings of μ, called the topological lens of T. We show that often the topological lens ‘magnifies’ the basic measure dynamical properties of T in terms of the corresponding topological properties of $\tilde {T}$. Some of our main results are as follows: (i) T is weakly mixing if and only if $\tilde {T}$ is topologically transitive (if and only if it is topologically weakly mixing); (ii) T has zero entropy if and only if $\tilde {T}$ has zero topological entropy, and T has positive entropy if and only if $\tilde {T}$ has infinite topological entropy; (iii) for T a K-system, the topological lens is a P-system (i.e. it is topologically transitive and the set of periodic points is dense; such systems are also called chaotic in the sense of Devaney).

SIMPLE AND COMPLEX DYNAMICS FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLD MAPS

1995 ◽  
Vol 05 (05) ◽  
pp. 1351-1355
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR FEDORENKO
Keyword(s):  
Topological Entropy ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Periodic Points ◽  
Dimensional Manifold ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Circle Maps ◽  
Interval Maps ◽  
Chain Recurrent Set ◽  
Recurrent Set

We give a characterization of complex and simple interval maps and circle maps (in the sense of positive or zero topological entropy respectively), formulated in terms of the description of the dynamics of the map on its chain recurrent set. We also describe the behavior of complex maps on their periodic points.

scholarly journals Positively curved 6-manifolds with simple symmetry groups

2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
FUQUAN FANG
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Isometry Group ◽  
Symmetry Groups ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Identity Component ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Lie Subgroup ◽  
Positively Curved

Let M be a simply connected compact 6-manifold of positive sectional curvature. If the identity component of the isometry group contains a simple Lie subgroup, we prove that M is diffeomorphic to one of the five manifolds listed in Theorem A.

scholarly journals Bounding Lagrangian widths via geodesic paths

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (12) ◽  
pp. 2143-2183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Strom Borman ◽  
Mark McLean
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
New Method ◽  
Finite Width ◽  
Energy Capacity ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Floer Cohomology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ambient Manifold ◽  
Open Map ◽  
Geodesic Paths

AbstractThe width of a Lagrangian is the largest capacity of a ball that can be symplectically embedded into the ambient manifold such that the ball intersects the Lagrangian exactly along the real part of the ball. Due to Dimitroglou Rizell, finite width is an obstruction to a Lagrangian admitting an exact Lagrangian cap in the sense of Eliashberg–Murphy. In this paper we introduce a new method for bounding the width of a Lagrangian$Q$by considering the Lagrangian Floer cohomology of an auxiliary Lagrangian$L$with respect to a Hamiltonian whose chords correspond to geodesic paths in$Q$. This is formalized as a wrapped version of the Floer–Hofer–Wysocki capacity and we establish an associated energy–capacity inequality with the help of a closed–open map. For any orientable Lagrangian$Q$admitting a metric of non-positive sectional curvature in a Liouville manifold, we show the width of$Q$is bounded above by four times its displacement energy.

scholarly journals Almost Positive Curvature on an Irreducible Compact Rank 2 Symmetric Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 2020 (5) ◽  
pp. 1346-1365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason DeVito ◽  
Ezra Nance
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Lie Group ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Compact Symmetric Space ◽  
Rank 2 ◽  
Set Of Points ◽  
Positively Curved

Abstract A Riemannian manifold is said to be almost positively curved if the set of points for which all two-planes have positive sectional curvature is open and dense. We show that the Grassmannian of oriented two-planes in $\mathbb{R}^{7}$ admits a metric of almost positive curvature, giving the first example of an almost positively curved metric on an irreducible compact symmetric space of rank greater than 1. The construction and verification rely on the Lie group $\mathbf{G}_{2}$ and the octonions, so do not obviously generalize to any other Grassmannians.

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