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Pinball billiards with dominated splitting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2009

ROBERTO MARKARIAN ,
ENRIQUE J. PUJALS  and
MARTÍN SAMBARINO
ROBERTO MARKARIAN
Affiliation:
Insituto de Matemática y Estadística ‘Prof. Ing. Rafael Laguardia’ (IMERL), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
ENRIQUE J. PUJALS
Affiliation:
IMPA-OS, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
MARTÍN SAMBARINO
Affiliation:
Centro de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Abstract

We study the dynamics of a type of non-conservative billiards where the ball is ‘kicked’ by the wall giving a new impulse in the direction of the normal. For different types of billiard tables we study the existence of attractors with dominated splitting.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 30 , Issue 6 , December 2010 , pp. 1757 - 1786
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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