Open billiards: Invariant and conditionally invariant probabilities on cantor sets

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 651-680

  Lopes, Artur ^a   Markarian, Roberto ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Cantor sets; Open billiards

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; GAS DYNAMICS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CANTOR SETS; HAUSDORFF DIMENSION; HORSESHOE STRUCTURE; LEBESGUE MEASURE; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; OPEN BILLIARDS; ZETA FUNCTION;

SET THEORY;

EID: 0030128039     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139995279433     Document Type: Article

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