Measure of maximal entropy for finite horizon Sinai billiard flows

Abstract

Using recent work of Carrand on equilibrium states for the billiard map, and bootstrapping via a "leapfrogging" method from a previous article of Baladi and Demers, we construct the unique measure of maximal entropy for two-dimensional finite horizon Sinai (dispersive) billiard flows (and show it is Bernoulli), assuming that the topological entropy of the flow is strictly larger than s_0 log 2 where 0<s_0<1 quantifies the recurrence to singularities. This bound holds in many examples (it is expected to hold generically).

Version v2 is the electronic copy of the version to appear in Ann. H. Lebesgue

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