Surface Billiards and Nonvanishing Lyapunov Exponents

Authors
Citation
Jian, Cheng, Surface Billiards and Nonvanishing Lyapunov Exponents, Acta Mathematica Sinica, New Series Chinese Journal of Mathematics, 13(1), 1997, pp. 21-34
ISSN journal
10009574
Volume
13
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
21 - 34
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
We study in thi paper the billliards on surfaces with max-valued Gaussian curvature and the condition which gives nonvashing Lyaounov exponents of the system. We introduce a criterion upon which a small perturbation of surface will also produce a system with positive Lyapunov exponents. Some examples of such surfaces are given in this article.