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January  2013, 7(1): 1-29. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2013.7.1

Divergent trajectories in the periodic wind-tree model

Vincent Delecroix 1,

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Université Paris 7, Département de Mathématiques, Bâtiment Sophie Germain, 8 Place FM/13, 75013 Paris, France

Received  April 2012 Published  May 2013

The periodic wind-tree model is a family $T(a,b)$ of billiards in the plane in which identical rectangular scatterers of size $a \times b$ are disposed periodically at each integer point. In that model, the recurrence is generic with respect to the parameters $a$, $b$, and the angle $\theta$ of initial direction of the particule. In contrast, we prove that for some parameters $(a,b)$ the set of angles $\theta$ for which the billiard flow is divergent has Hausdorff dimension greater than one half.
Keywords: Wind-tree model, rational billiard, interval-exchange transformations..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37B05, 37B1.
Citation: Vincent Delecroix. Divergent trajectories in the periodic wind-tree model. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2013, 7 (1) : 1-29. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2013.7.1
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A. Avila and P. Hubert, Recurrence for the windtree model,, preprint., ().   Google Scholar

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K. Calta, Veech surfaces and complete periodicity in genus two, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 17 (2004), 871-908. doi: 10.1090/S0894-0347-04-00461-8.  Google Scholar

[3]

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S. Tabachnikov, "Billards," Panoramas et Synthèses, Société Mathématiques de France, 1995. Google Scholar

[31]

W. Veech, Gauss measures for transformations on the space of interval exchange maps, Ann. of Math. (2), 115 (1982), 201-242. doi: 10.2307/1971391.  Google Scholar

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