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Natural Smooth Measures on the Leaves of the Unstable Manifold of Open Billiard Dynamical Systems (open access)

Natural Smooth Measures on the Leaves of the Unstable Manifold of Open Billiard Dynamical Systems

In this paper, we prove, for a certain class of open billiard dynamical systems, the existence of a family of smooth probability measures on the leaves of the dynamical system's unstable manifold. These measures describe the conditional asymptotic behavior of forward trajectories of the system. Furthermore, properties of these families are proven which are germane to the PYC programme for these systems. Strong sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of such families are given which depend upon geometric properties of the system's phase space. In particular, these results hold for a fairly nonrestrictive class of triangular configurations of scatterers.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Richardson, Peter A. (Peter Adolph), 1955-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multifractal Analysis of Parabolic Rational Maps (open access)

Multifractal Analysis of Parabolic Rational Maps

The investigation of the multifractal spectrum of the equilibrium measure for a parabolic rational map with a Lipschitz continuous potential, φ, which satisfies sup φ < P(φ) x∈J(T) is conducted. More specifically, the multifractal spectrum or spectrum of singularities, f(α) is studied.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Byrne, Jesse William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence of Many Sign Changing Non Radial Solutions for Semilinear Elliptic Problems on Annular Domains (open access)

Existence of Many Sign Changing Non Radial Solutions for Semilinear Elliptic Problems on Annular Domains

The aim of this work is the study of the existence and multiplicity of sign changing nonradial solutions to elliptic boundary value problems on annular domains.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Finan, Marcel Basil
System: The UNT Digital Library