{ "id": "1205.0061", "version": "v5", "published": "2012-05-01T00:37:59.000Z", "updated": "2013-04-25T00:53:04.000Z", "title": "Singularities and nonhyperbolic manifolds do not coincide", "authors": [ "Nandor Simanyi" ], "comment": "Final version, to appear in Nonlinearity", "journal": "Nonlinearity 26 (2013) 1703-1717", "doi": "10.1088/0951-7715/26/6/1703", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We consider the billiard flow of elastically colliding hard balls on the flat $\\nu$-torus ($\\nu\\ge 2$), and prove that no singularity manifold can even locally coincide with a manifold describing future non-hyperbolicity of the trajectories. As a corollary, we obtain the ergodicity (actually the Bernoulli mixing property) of all such systems, i.e. the verification of the Boltzmann-Sinai Ergodic Hypothesis.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v5", "updated": "2013-04-25T00:53:04.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "37D50", "34D05" ], "keywords": [ "nonhyperbolic manifolds", "boltzmann-sinai ergodic hypothesis", "elastically colliding hard balls", "billiard flow", "singularity manifold" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "journal": "Nonlinearity", "year": 2013, "month": "Jun", "volume": 26, "number": 6, "pages": 1703 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013Nonli..26.1703S" } } }