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Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6015-9174
AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Mathematics
Year Degree Awarded
2021
Month Degree Awarded
September
First Advisor
HongKun Zhang
Subject Categories
Dynamical Systems
Abstract
In this thesis, we address some questions about certain chaotic dynamical systems. In particular, the objects of our studies are chaotic billiards. A billiard is a dynamical system that describe the motions of point particles in a table where the particles collide elastically with the boundary and with each other. Among the dynamical systems, billiards have a very important position. They are models for many problems in acoustics, optics, classical and quantum mechanics, etc.. Despite of the rather simple description, billiards of different shapes of tables exhibit a wide range of dynamical properties from being complete integrable to chaotic. A very important and also very interesting type of billiards is chaotic (or hyperbolic) billiards. In a hyperbolic billiard system, two nearby trajectories in the phase space can be separated exponentially fast in future. In the first two Chapters, we prove the Central Limit Theorem and the Almost Sure Invariance Principle for a class of billiard systems with flat points. They are two among the important statistical properties for chaotic systems. In the last chapter, we introduce a random perturbation to a wide class of billiards and prove that even if the original system is completely integrable, the perturbed system can be chaotic even under arbitrarily small random perturbation.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/24405389
Recommended Citation
Nguyen, Kien T., "HYPERBOLICITY AND CERTAIN STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF CHAOTIC BILLIARD SYSTEMS" (2021). Doctoral Dissertations. 2283.
https://doi.org/10.7275/24405389
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2283
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