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Two-particle billiard system with arbitrary mass ratio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Nándor Simányi
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1364, P.O. Box 127, Hungary
Maciej P. Wojtkowski
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Abstract

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We describe ergodic properties of the system of two hard discs with arbitrary masses moving on the two dimensional torus.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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