Chaotic properties of the truncated elliptical billiard
arXiv:0903.3479 · doi:10.1016/j.cnsns.2010.03.007
Abstract
Chaotic properties of symmetrical two-dimensional stadium-like billiards with elliptical arcs are studied numerically and analytically. For the two-parameter truncated elliptical billiard the existence and linear stability of several lowest-order periodic orbits are investigated in the full parameter space. Poincar\' e plots are computed and used for evaluation of the degree of chaoticity with the box-counting method. The limit of the fully chaotic behavior is identified with circular arcs. Above this limit, for flattened elliptical arcs, mixed dynamics with numerous stable elliptic islands is present, similarly as in the elliptical stadium billiards. Below this limit the full chaos extends over the whole region of elongated shapes and the existing orbits are either unstable or neutral. This is conspicuously different from the behavior in the elliptical stadium billiards, where the chaotic region is strictly bounded from both sides. To examine the mechanism of this difference, a generalization to a novel three-parameter family of boundary shapes is proposed and suggested for further evaluation.
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