Examples of exponentially many collisions in a hard ball system

Dmitri Burago; Sergei Ivanov

doi:10.1017/etds.2020.54

Examples of exponentially many collisions in a hard ball system

Dmitri Burago
, Sergei Ivanov

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Consider the system of n identical hard balls in moving freely and colliding elastically. We show that there exist initial conditions such that the number of collisions is exponential in n.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2754-2769
Number of pages	16
Journal	Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Volume	41
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/etds.2020.54
State	Published - Sep 2021

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Applied Mathematics

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Examples of exponentially many collisions in a hard ball system

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